Domestic violence survivors spread their message
BY DINA MENDROS EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Members of Finding Our Voices placed posters in Biddeford and Saco storefronts last week and will do the same in Scarborough and other areas of Cumberland County on July 25.
From left, Riley Kennedy, Miss Cumberland County; Patrisha McLean; Dana Ward; Meg Libby (Riley’s mother); all in the trademark yellow of Finding Our Voices; pose on July 13 at Reilly’s Bakery in Biddeford, with Michael Reilly, back, who ran the bakery for 35 years and worked there for 52. Courtesy photo
BIDDEFORD — For 10 years, Rebekah Lowell of Biddeford was in an abusive relationship — longer if you count the four years of dating before she married her ex-husband. He not only physically abused her, she said, but “abuse is also about power and control.”