International Women’s Day #ChooseToChallenge

It is International Women’s Day!

Today around the world, women are celebrated regardless of division, whether it be linguistic, ethnic, religious or economic.

Women are women and they are celebrated.

The women of our culture have done something of importance. They are special. They are mothers or teachers and they have to be celebrated. They have to be cared for and not domestically abused.

And justice4mom actually has two women stories involved in it because we have my mom who’s the victim of a domestic violence attack by my father, Mike Rinder, and her story; and then we have my story as her daughter, being a voice to speak out against domestic violence and against Mike Rinder.

This year’s Women’s Day 2021, the theme is #ChooseToChallenge.

And so I decided I’m going to choose to challenge Mike Rinder to own up to his abuse and own up to the fact that he abused his wife of 30 years and the mother of two of his children.

I choose to challenge Mike Rinder to stop harassing and hating me, my brother and my family—his family.

I choose to challenge all the people that are supporting Mike Rinder, supporting an abusive man. I choose to challenge you to stop supporting Mike Rinder and stop supporting an abusive man.

Wishing you a happy Women’s Day 2021. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be loved. They don't deserve to be domestically abused.

So let’s care for everybody and keep our women beautiful and happy.

Go women, go!

Taryn

International Women’s Day

#ChooseToChallenge

justice4mom.org

Victim Shaming

Welcome. I am here speaking up so that people don’t support a man that abuses women—Mike Rinder. And, speaking up so that my mom doesn’t go to her grave having never gotten justice.

I know: I’ve seen all sides of the equation. I’ve seen my father being a belligerent, irresponsible person who is shaming my mom. And I’ve seen my mom living every single day in pain and having to rearrange her life because of that pain caused by my father, Mike Rinder.

Thus, my justice4mom campaign and my voice and me speaking out against Mike Rinder. And speaking out against him so that people understand what he is like and so that they don’t fall into the same trap.

I was a witness to—an eyewitness actually—to my father, Mike Rinder, attacking my mom. That incident is imprinted on my mind. The pain that he caused my mother is very clear in my mind—not only from that day but all the way since, because she’s in pain every single day due to this abuse.

Some of the things that happened and the damage that was caused by this domestic violence attack was that it really injured my mother’s nerves. I don’t know if you’ve ever had a pinched nerve but that alone hurts. But, imagine 5X that, and then to have it for your whole life. Not only was there nerve damage but her shoulder was actually broken by Mike Rinder. And the flesh wounds tell their own story with the blood that was all over her shirt, on the floor, and the gouged skin that was actually removed from her body from the attack. And not just skin but flesh.

Since that time I have been the one cleaning up the mess—helping my mom and doing everything that she needs to alleviate her pain and make her be able to live a decent life despite the fact that she was injured for life by Mike Rinder.

There’s been a myriad of physical therapy appointments, doctors, an operation she had to get to actually fix the bone that was so broken and pulled out of place by Mike Rinder’s attack. The doctors actually had to go in and cut some of it off because it had been jammed out of place. The doctor told my mom that the surgery was as intense as getting a limb amputated. This was because of the nerve damage and the exact place where Mike Rinder happened to have broken my mother’s shoulder. It was a very crucial place in her arm and it just was so painful.

So let’s end the cruelty by Mike Rinder. Let’s end the support of this cruel individual.

Let’s not have people that are cruel. We want kindness. We want care. And we want people loving each other and taking an interest in other people and helping them. Let’s make this a better world.

Taryn

2021—the year to end

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Physical Abuse

I wanted to tell you about the day that my father, Mike Rinder, attacked my mom—just a short part of it—but it’ll give a very clear idea of exactly what I saw and the damage that he caused to her. So it was a hot summer day, we were down in Florida—we, being my mom and my uncle (Mike's brother) who flew in from Australia. And we were there, and we were hopeful for reconciling with Mike Rinder and coming to an end of his attacks on our family.

We were perfectly happy with him going and living his life and moving on and leaving us alone. Well, it absolutely didn’t go that way. It was faster than I could have imagined—upon approaching Mike Rinder—next thing you know, my mom's being abused by him and being attacked by him. And his arms are on her and he’s screaming in rage—and, I mean, profanities you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. And spittle coming out of his mouth and a rage, that was so violent, it was scary. And I can tell you, as a daughter, you never expect that. And you never expect that to be your father, Mike Rinder, on your mom. I mean, can you imagine that? I literally couldn't—it was surreal. It was scary. I was scared for my life. I was scared for my mom's life.

This rage that he was in—and rage makes a man very dangerous—this rage that he was in, in this domestic violence attack, resulted in her having a broken shoulder, gouged flesh, blood everywhere on the scene when it was happening. And all sorts of other medical ramifications as a result of the flesh wound and infection and, you know, all sorts of things. That all resulted from that rage. And he, Mike Rinder, wouldn’t let go. And my mom’s yelling, “Let go, let go.’’ And she will tell you, she heard her bones cracking. She heard it happening. And yes, he broke her shoulder that day in that rage.

So what am I supposed to do? I’m the daughter. I’ve just witnessed and experienced, now, my mom having been damaged by my father, Mike Rinder—damaged for life. Am I supposed to stand here and not say anything? Let him get away with it? Let him be supported by whoever—all the people that don’t care? No. That is not going to happen. I will not stand by while my mother is in pain every single day of her life and Mike Rinder continues to walk free with no responsibility. And, on top of it, shame the victim and shame my mom and tease her and lie about her and lie about my family. No. I will not do it.

And that’s why I have justice4mom.

That being said, your support is very appreciated. I want to thank you, every one of you, my supporters that have been supporting me for some years now. For all of that support, for every little thing that you do, for the encouragement, for you going out and doing something, for taking a stand against domestic violence.

Anything and everything that you can do—not only to stop my father, Mike Rinder, the abuser—but any abuser—I appreciate, and I want to thank you for that. It’s so appreciated, I cannot tell you enough.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Taryn

Justice4mom