Josie was shot September 20, 1989 Suffering a severed spinal cord & paralysis
Josephine Guiles November 19, 2000
Domestic Violence
Josephine Guiles
September 25, A National Day of Remembrance
A memory of Josie for the quilt.
Sept. 10, 1989 Josie moved out of her parents home. Sept. 19, 1989 Josie told case workers at Berks County Children and Youth services that her adoptive father had been sexually abusing her. Sept. 20, 1989 Josie's step father shot her as she walked home from Reading High School. Josie spent 11 years in assisted care living confined to a wheel chair. November 20, 2000 Josie's life ended in a hospital after suffering respiratory distress.
Article Dated 10/19/1989
Witness said gunman had a mean look
Witness describes gunman
Article Dated 10/19/1989
Article Dated 1/5/1992
Determined Josie Battling Back
"You gotta live your life and I'm gonna live mine the best I can" she declares.
"I realize I might not walk again, but I've got to live my life from a wheel chair the best I can"
