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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 01:03 PM Sep 2014

Trigger Warning: Real Women and Girls Behind the Statistics

Trigger Warning: Statistics quoted by James Brown of ESPN are that 3 women a day are killed by their partners.

These stories are graphic and I can't post much because the rights are being reserved. It's worth reading for those who have not experienced or don't know what women are talking about. Those who have and may be made ill, are advised to not go any further.

The first two are from one case, but that is actually about 4 different women hospitalized by the same man. The last story is of a man who raped and impregnated his 12-year-old step daughter.

Prosecutors: Man's 4th female victim since April suffered brain injury, collapsed lung

By EDDIE GREGG - 2014-09-15

Well, it's so long and gruesome I won't post it here. Only those who want to what this looks like in real life should go to the link:

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/prosecutors-man-s-th-female-victim-since-april-suffered-brain/article_69c2f597-8d77-5d80-9f70-268a609b792f.html

Earlier story explains blow by blow, and is truly awful to read, just how women are trapped into these situations:

Man accused of hospitalizing women 4 times since April; bond set at $200,000

By EDDIE GREGG - 2014-09

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-accused-of-hospitalizing-women-times-since-april-bond-set/article_c6b36e59-76df-5ef3-9322-9c88131c39cf.html

Yet they offer bail and the maximum sentence for all of these combined, is only 35 years when these women will likely need a lifetime of care for the physical injuries alone.

Now the last case:

Man, 39, charged with impregnating his 12-year-old step-daughter


Only got $100,000 bail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2709695/Man-39-charged-impregnating-12-year-old-step-daughter.html#ixzz3DUmodPv7

We need more legislators in the states that are lenient with abuse. It's not just the LEO's, court, etc. Those are all given their marching orders by the state legislators. And increasingly, they are filled with regressives.

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