NORMAN — More than 500 members of the law enforcement community, prosecutors, victims and advocates are attending the state’s annual Partnership Conference on Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking, which is today and Thursday. The conference is sponsored by the Attorney General’s Office, CASA, the Catholic Archdiocese, the Criminal Justice Resource Center, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Health, the District Attorneys Council, the Oklahoma Coalition against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (OCADVSA), the Regional Community Policy Institute and the Oklahoma U.S. Attorney Offices.
Mildred Muhammad is the featured speaker at this year’s 2010 Partnership Conference on Domestic/Sexual Violence and Stalking today.
Residents of Washington, D.C., and its environs were panicked in autumn 2002 when John Allen Muhammad, later known as the D.C. Sniper, terrorized the region with seemingly random shootings. So his ex-wife Mildred was stunned to hear later from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that the shootings only had looked haphazard — she was the target.
The goal was apparently to kill Mildred Muhammad in what looked like a random shooting so her ex-husband would regain custody of his children.
Mildred Muhammad will tell how she survived it all — years of emotional abuse, the kidnapping of her children for 18 months, the public scrutiny — at the 2010 Partnership Conference on Domestic/Sexual Violence and Stalking. The presentation will begin at 8:45 a.m. Today at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Norman.
For more info on the conference, please visit www.regonline.com/partnersforchange or call Tina Harman at 264-5006 or 760-3737.
