Violent traumas bear array of often buried health issues [MercedSunstar.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/2/154:00 AM

This story is the second in a three-part series. Ana B. Ibarra’s reporting on community violence and its effects on health was undertaken as a fellow of the California Health Journalism Fellowship at USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism.

Claudia Gonzalez was 12 years old when she witnessed the murder of a friend for the first time.

Gonzalez said she was in Los Angeles County when she and a group of friends were confronted by what she figured were gang members.

“When they gut you, they cut you across,” Gonzalez, now 29, said as she described the attack on her childhood friend. “His intestines were out. The whole way to the hospital, I was holding his stomach in.”

[For more of this story, written by Ana B. Ibarra, go to http://www.mercedsunstar.com/n...6.html#storylink=cpy]

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