Welcome Back to Justice4mom

Hello, everyone!

It’s Taryn with justice4mom. I hope you all have stayed safe and well.

I’ve been definitely wanting to get back to vlogging and blogging in this COVID-19 era because I keep reading about and seeing that the domestic violence statistics have gone up tremendously over this period. So it is quite clear we have a lot of work to do to get domestic violence ended.

I have spent the last six months with my mom, making sure she was safe as this pandemic hit. Her body has already been weakened by the abuse of Mike Rinder and she’s already had to go through surgery and remains in pain. So that made it all the more important for me to take care of her during this time and put special attention on making sure she was going to be safe.

That has been my top priority for quite some months now. And at this point, it is a matter of getting used to the new normal, which is not something I thought would ever happen, but we're doing that. So here I am.

Today I wanted to talk to you about that exact subject—keeping our families safe. My mom—she’s 5’4’’, maybe a little shorter, and weighs just over a hundred pounds. And my father, Mike Rinder, is well over 200 pounds and brutally attacked my petite mom. In this attack he broke her shoulder.

I want to put into perspective how much pain she has been in and the resulting care she has had to have because of the abuse by Mike Rinder. I want to give you an idea of how badly he hurt her:

To start off, the day the attack happened, she had blood all over her arm—her shirt—it was dripping on the ground, profusely bleeding. And my mom was yelling out to my father, Mike Rinder, at one point, “Let go! Let go!” And he was screaming profanities in her face. But the point being, by this time he had harmed her.

An ambulance was called. The paramedics came. They did the immediate handlings that were needed to dress her wounds and make sure she was fine and, you know, from all that we could see, they took care of that. Good. So that’s what happened the day that it happened. Bandage it up, etc.

But in a few weeks she was in a lot of pain still. And it wasn’t just where the flesh wound was. She was in pain on the whole side of her body. And I determined we need to get this checked out. I was worried. That’s when we took her to a doctor.

The doctor examined her arm and at this point her arm was completely swollen. It had been infected. The doctor inspected that and we did a few other things, but the pain still didn’t go away.

Next thing we did was go to a renowned orthopedic surgeon and x-ray and examine her more—beyond just the flesh wound. The question was, “What else happened that day?” Because something happened as she never recovered. Well, she had said that she could hear bones creak when my father grabbed her. Meaning she heard bones cracking while the incident was happening and she was being attacked by Mike Rinder. So the orthopedic surgeon said, after the x-rays and the examination, “Your shoulder’s cracked and it’s causing nerve damage. You need surgery.” That at least explained some of it and why she was still in pain.

So then we had the surgery. And it was a very lengthy recovery time with physical therapy afterwards to get the shoulder to get to any mobility. It required weekly physical therapy, medical attention, the operation and then of course follow-up appointments with the surgeon. And seeing a masseuse every week. This went on for weeks on end and it was just continuing.

My mother’s pain still to this day has not gone away. She is in pain every day. It is heart-wrenching to me. And it really just puts in perspective, you know, and shows how badly she was hurt by my father Mike Rinder. And that’s what I’m trying to get across, because it means something to me.

This is why I find it so vile and disgusting that Mike Rinder continues to deny his abuse and use whatever platforms he has to harass my mother, me, my family, to tell lies about us and to deny the fact that he hurt her.

Maybe someday he'll take responsibility for his actions, but in the meanwhile I'm not going to let Mike Rinder get away with denying what did happen, and I'm going to continue to tell the truth of what happened. I know what I know is true. And so this is where justice4mom comes in and why I started this campaign and the reason it's so near and dear to my heart: to expose domestic violence and bring justice to Mike Rinder for his abuse of my mother.

So thank you very much for being here with me today.

Stay safe!

Domestic violence is its own pandemic.

Expose the truth.

Quarantine with mom

The last many weeks of staying at home with my mom have only brought us closer together.

We both had the unfortunate experience of her being domestically abused by my father, Mike Rinder. He did this right in front of me, so I was subjected to the brutality as well.

The result of his abuse is her inability to ever fully use her right arm again - essentially she is crippled because of him.

So, while I have been social distancing like the rest of the world in the current "stay at home" situation, I have spent a lot of time with mom.

There has been one respite to all the pain and suffering she has had to endure because of Mike Rinder, which is having time during quarantine to nurture her garden and flowers!

A few days ago she showed me all of her plants that are growing since the Spring rain! She has roses, little tiny mini daisies that are really cute and geraniums and many others!

She also has some Snow in Summer - which is a succulent that has white flowers all over it and so when it is in bloom it has a blanket of white "snow" in Summer! This is not in bloom yet so I could not take any shots, but here are a couple others of us in her garden celebrating Mother's Day together.

So this Mother's Day, support your mom, do something she likes, give her your attention and love.

Stay safe. Stay well. Stay domestic violence free

Mother's Day 2020

What a different Mother's Day than we ever expected! Some of us are physically with our mother this Mother's Day, some are doing it via face-time or zoom, or maybe going over to her house to put our hands against each other with a window between us, but all of us are celebrating them!

I am a big supporter of my mom. We have been close my whole life. She’s just one of those moms that when you look back and think about your time together you smile and think of how lucky you are to have her as your mom.

She is also a domestic violence survivor. That fateful day of the brutal domestic violence attack has lived with us. My love for my mother is the fuel that keeps me driving forward on my campaign to bring her Justice. Justice from the pain and injury my father, Mike Rinder, inflicted on her. With no remorse. No apology. No regret.

Each Mother's Day I stand proud that I spoke out against my father, Mike Rinder, and his abuse of my mother. And I continue to do so.

In this era of us spending a lot of time at home, the potential for domestic abuse is higher than ever. This is now the most important time to be vigilant and speak up if you or your mother or any loved one is in a position of even a potential domestic violence attack.