PADV’s Silent No More Candlelight Vigil

Strangers Help Woman Escape Abusive Church and Marriage. Survivor breaks her silence to speak at PADV events

Tranteegus Allen’s story reads like a made for TV movie. But it’s not; it happened in metro Atlanta. Allen was forced at the age of 17 to marry her pastor’s son, a boy she had grown up with. She experienced controlling abuse by both her husband and her church. Her husband, who took over his father’s church as pastor, would quote 1 Corinthians 7:4 “The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband” while he was raping her. She suffered a miscarriage because she was so badly beaten. You can hear Allen recount her tumultuous journey at two events sponsored by Partnership Against Domestic Violence (PADV) on October 2, 2008, and October 23, 2008.

Allen will speak at PADV’s Silent No More candlelight vigil, scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 2 in front of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site Visitor’s Center, 450 Auburn Avenue. The second event, the Domestic Violence Speak-Out, is scheduled for Thursday, October 23 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Gwinnett Justice and Administrative Center, Breezeway, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville. Both events are free and open to the public and are being held to observe National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

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