Debbie Schanz, whose teenage daughter was killed at the hands of her boyfriend in 1991, will speak at the county's annual event.
WOODBURY -- The mother of a girl who died as a result of domestic violence will speak at the county's annual Victim's Remembrance Ceremony Wednesday.
The ceremony, which will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Justice Complex's garden, will commemorate victims of violence. One of those victims, AmyLynn Schanz, was just a 15 when she was strangled and killed by her boyfriend in 1991.
A year later that boyfriend James Gibbone, who was 25 at the time, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the case, according to a Philly.com report. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
AmyLynn's mother, Debbie Schanz, will be the keynote speaker at Wednesday's event, which remembers victims of violence from throughout Gloucester County over the past decades. She will discuss victim's rights and the progress she has seen in that area since her daughter's death. Washington Township singer Michael Jones will also perform.
This is the event's fifth year and takes place in the garden outside of the justice complex, which is lined with stones marked with the names of those lost to violence.
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