Domestic Violence Survivor Jailed for Failing to “Protect her Children” from Abuser [View all]

[niyad]

(how about jailing the people in the system who failed to protest her and her children from this abuser, who is now FREE?) but, we are told, ad nauseum, ad infinitem, that there is NO war on women) May that judge, and everyone involved, receive everything they deserve.

Domestic Violence Survivor Jailed for Failing to “Protect her Children” from Abuser



Domestic abuse survivor Tondalo Hall has spent the last decade behind bars in a McLoud, Oklahoma prison for “failing to protect” her children from a violent partner.





Robert Braxton, Jr. was arrested in 2004 for breaking the ribs and femur of the couple’s daughter, who was 3 months old at the time. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but ultimately served only two.

Hall, on the other hand, is serving 30 years for not interfering when the child abuse occurred, even though she was a victim of her partner’s violence as well. Hall reports that Braxton had punched and choked her in the past.

Women’s rights group UltraViolet has mobilized to raise awareness of Hall’s case, arguing that the judge’s ruling is unfair and punishes a survivor of domestic violence. The group spearheaded a campaign pressuring Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board to reduce Hall’s sentence. The board denied Hall’s plea for clemency this week.

UltraViolet co-founder Shaunna Thomas said in a press release:
Survivors of domestic violence are too often criminalized rather than protected. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board had the responsibility to make things right and they failed … This is not justice. Tondalo’s story is tragic and proves that we have a criminal justice system that would rather imprison domestic abuse survivors than get them the counseling and support they need to heal.

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http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/09/25/domestic-violence-survivor-jailed-for-failing-to-protect-her-children-from-abuser/