Mom offers support to others who’ve lost kids to deadly crime

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Childbirth brings on a brand new set of feelings for every father or mother.

Clara Taylor by no means knew she might love one human a lot, not to mention eight of them. However being a mom of eight brings on concern of each little factor.

In 2006, she misplaced her first son to gun violence after a drive-by taking pictures in Augusta.

She remembers feeling so misplaced, so confused, questioning if the ache won’t ever go away and what you even do when a toddler dies.

Simply six years later, she would expertise that very same ache once more in 2012 when her son Andre died in a motorbike accident.

And as if life couldn’t get any worse, Taylor’s daughter Felycya, who recognized as transgender, was shot useless at 33 years previous in Augusta.

Then when Keshia Geter was murdered in the summertime of final 12 months, Taylor says a lightweight bulb of change sparked in her.

“In the future, you’ll rise up you’ll be simply as vibrant and blissful, after which some little reminiscence come by. It’ll make you return to a different stage,” she mentioned.

Leaving Taylor to know for something she might discover for assist

“I want I might have had extra open arms to assist me information to information me by means of a few of the ache that I went by means of,” mentioned Taylor.

She needed to go and meet Keshia’s mom to create one thing new right here that will assist all households within the CSRA with loss.

Out of this, she has created a brand new group known as A Mom’s Combat, which has launched its web site and is engaged on gaining nonprofit standing.

This system will likely be there to assist not solely transgender youths and households who’re affected by weapons however all households who’ve misplaced youngsters.

A few of these victims have been transgender and died from gun violence. Leaving Taylor decided to get involved with these moms.

“You don’t know what to say. You don’t know what to do. And often, you’re sitting there frozen. So I need A Moms Combat to return in, to return in and say, okay, child, that is the next move,” she mentioned.

“We’re reaching out to sufferer victims, mother and father, family members which might be going by means of a time,” mentioned Taylor

Walter Santiago says by taking the load off of those households permits for schooling, therapeutic, and assets to assist in a time when the whole lot feels incorrect.

“How will we educate one another to be sincere, be sincere with ourselves, be form love each other? I imply, easy rules and values, the place ours are actually robust at A Mom’s Combat. And I feel that’s actually, that’s actually what the inception of it’s and the way it’s introduced us all collectively,” he mentioned.

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