Kane Bell was 3 years old when the domestic violence cycle started in his home.

Bell lived through it for about 10 years before his mother finally decided to get help at the Kendall County Women’s Shelter.

He didn’t know it was trauma then, but he remembers how it affected his life.

“It would even affect my school life. I wouldn’t want to associate with anybody. I would cut myself off from a lot,” he said. “Even when we would go to, say, play on the playground, I’d just sit on the side or I’d go look at rocks and stuff because I just felt... I was scared.”

As a child, he felt he had no voice and that no one would believe him, he said.

Learn more about his story in the video player above.

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