Editorial November 9, 1992 Issue

Crime-stoppers

Mary Metzner Trammell

Is it naive to believe that prayer can stop crime? Not at all.

You probably wouldn't peg my friend Betty Ann as a crime-stopper. But she's helped prevent thousands of crimes and saved thousands of young people from drug and alcohol abuse. She's been named "Woman of the Year" by the Governor of Florida. And she's based it all on prayer.

Betty Ann's career as a crime-stopper began early one morning almost twenty years ago when she was studying the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. As she read, she was praying about some deeply distressing news she'd just heard. A fourteen-year-old girl in her neighborhood had been sexually assaulted by a man who'd been terrorizing women in the area for months.

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