Providing a safe space for victims

Denise Fonseca recalls sitting in tired, worn out rooms at the Hays County Government Center in 2018 and 2019. She was a victim of domestic abuse and spent time in those waiting rooms preparing to tell her story.

Fonseca was abused for 551 days, enduring years of broken bones, repeated death threats and hopelessness. Fonseca, a Dripping Springs resident, called the Hays County Sheriff’s Office for help in January 2018. After 19 months of waiting in those rooms at the government center, telling her story to attorneys and testifying in court, her abuser was convicted on three counts of continuous family violence.