VANDERBURGH COUNTY, Ind. (WEHT) — The University of Southern Indiana students are remembering victims of domestic violence.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and students at USI gathered to honor the 83 lives that were lost to domestic violence in Indiana this year.

Flowers on the Lake is an annual ceremony that the university's sexual assault and gender violence prevention group holds to raise awareness about the warning signs of relationship abuse. The community spread flowers on Reflection Lake while listening to a bell rung for every life lost this year in Indiana.

“Domestic violence impacts everyone,” Albion Fellows Beacon Center coordinator Abby Sink said. “It's not an all women or all children thing. It can happen to anybody at any time.”

Sink, who once dealt with hel

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