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Maria Victoria Murua
Maria Victoria Murua is a wife, mother, grandmother, poet, writer, singer and musician. Of all her literary work, Maria is proudest of the many gospel songs she has authored for he...view moreMaria Victoria Murua is a wife, mother, grandmother, poet, writer, singer and musician. Of all her literary work, Maria is proudest of the many gospel songs she has authored for her Church choir, at the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Guadalupe, Arizona. “When I hear the people singing my songs of praise to God, my heart literally takes flies to Heaven,” she says. Maria has also spent the last 25 years as a Detention Officer for Maricopa County, in the State of Arizona. Most of those years she worked in the Adult Remand Juvenile Detention Unit. “Those years were very painful,” she admits. “As a mother and a grandmother, it breaks my heart to see all the young children, ‘Los Niños,’ that are facing bleak, uncertain futures of lengthy prison sentences and even life imprisonment. Childhood should never end like this, but for many children, it does.view less