Crime Victims’ Rights Week

Sunday marked the start of National Crime Victims’ Rights week, a time set aside to honor and remember victims of violent crimes. News 25’s Kendra Turley shows us how officials in Pascagoula commemorated this week.
“My brother was murdered March 4th, 2005. They found his body April 1st, 2005,” said Gautier resident Jennifer Sigalas. Every day since then, Sigalas has mourned the loss of her 14-year-old brother, Jacob Sigalas. “He wanted two kids and a wife and everything. This church and the things they do, every time they have this function, it lets people know that we have not forgotten. We are not forgotten. And he is not forgotten,” said Sigalas.
The District Attorney’s Office for the 19th District offered Jennifer and others going through the same struggle a night of support and remembrance. They held a ceremony at the Church on the Rock in Pascagoula in light of National Crime Victims’ Rights week.
Elected officials and families from all over Jackson County were in attendance as the office honored, remembered and awarded victims of sexual assaults, homicides and other violent crimes.
Jennifer Sigalas attends the event every year. She tells News 25 the pain of losing her brother will never fade away, but she’s grateful for the night of community support and for the opportunity to spread her message of hope. “To let people know that it’s not okay to get away with the things they did. That we have not forgotten the loved one’s we’ve lost and we’ve not forgotten the ones who killed them.”
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