READING, Pa. — A group that helps survivors of domestic violence delivered a moving message in Reading.<\/p>\n
Safe Berks hosted its annual Silent Witness March.<\/p>\n
Red silhouettes are carried through downtown Reading, representing lives lost to domestic violence in Berks County.<\/p>\n
Organizers say 89 people in the county have died of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n
They added three new silhouettes this year.<\/p>\n
The march starts at Safe Berks’ Reading office and continues to Reading Area Community College for a special ceremony.<\/p>\n
“My mom was… she was my best friend, and we talked on the phone every day, and when she got hurt, my world came crumbling down. I just feel as though I have to keep her legacy alive,” said Luis Serrano, who participated in Tuesday’s walk.<\/p>\n
“This event allows us to bring awareness to the fact that domestic violence homicide does occur in our community, and more importantly, it gives a time for the friends, the family and the loved ones of those who have lost their lives to gather together and feel supported,” said Beth Garrigan, CEO of Safe Berks.<\/p>\n
This is the 24th year Safe Berks has hosted the march.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. — A group that helps survivors of domestic violence delivered a moving message in Reading. Safe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}