PRINTABLE PAGE Judge Freed Abusive Husband Days Before Killing By Jessica Heslam and Franci RichardsonOriginally published in The Boston Herald, March 28, 2002 An Amesbury wife-beater who executed his estranged spouse with a single shotgun blast and then took his…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Elder Abuse is Topic of County Pamphlet A district attorney’s office official says most cases are perpetrated by a family member. By Richard Chaplin, The Press-Enterprise San BernardinoOriginally published in Inland Empire Online, June 17, 2001 It happens…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Little Being Done to Stop Elder Abuse: Experts By Maggie FoxOriginally published by Reuters, June 18, 2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — From the frail woman in a nursing home found with bruises on her face and hands to the…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Screening for Abuse in Spanish-Speaking Women By Colleen T. Fogarty, MD, Judith Belle Brown, PhDOriginally published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 15(2):101-111, 2002 Abstract and Introduction Abstract Background: Domestic violence is a major…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Study: Girls Victimized by Dates By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical WriterOriginally published by The Associated Press, July 30, 3001 CHICAGO (AP) — One in five high school girls has been physically or sexually abused by a dating partner,…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Brutal Abusers Often Not Jailed About half don’t get any prison time, and those who do usually serve less than two years By Rick Brundrett And Chris Roberts, Staff Writers, The StateOriginally published in The State, June 10,…
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PRINTABLE PAGE ‘Cashmere Countess’ Swindled Ex-Mayor By Michael Sneed and Scott Fornek, Staff ReportersOriginally published in the Chicago Sun-Times, December 16, 2001 He speaks slowly and softly, in the same gentle manner that was his public trademark. But he pronounces…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Hands Off Domestic violence has become a national social problem By Hana IbrahimOriginally published in the Sunday Observer, June 24, 2001 Sometimes there is no blood. In a pithy phrase that’s both saturated with connotations and bereft of…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Police: Abusive Dad Ruled House of Horrors by Ed Hayward and Franci RichardsonOriginally published in the Boston Herald, June 15, 2001 SALISBURY — Isolated from the outside world by their tyrannical father, the six McMullen children lived anonymously…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Man Who Garrotted His Family Gets Life Sexual relationship with stepdaughter led to row that provoked jealous killer into committing five gruesome murders By Paul KelsoOriginally published in The Guardian, May 25, 2001 A man who garrotted his…