The hardship doesn't end with the protection order and the court decisions. You have to rebuild your life from scratch. Thanks to the support and protection system in place in Albania, Laureta received temporary financial assistance and found work as a hairdresser, demonstrating both the challenges survivors face and the resources available to help them move forward.
Officers were called at 11:38 a.m. to the 500 block of El Paseo de Saratoga for a shooting report, and found a man and woman lying on the ground in the lot suffering from gunshot wounds, according to the San Jose Police Department. They were both pronounced dead at the scene.
A man who caused the unlawful termination of a woman's pregnancy after forcing her to take five 'abortion' pills and then locking her in a room at a house in Co Donegal has been jailed for nine years.
Speaking at the Museum of the Bible earlier today, Donald Trump appeared to minimize the severity of domestic violence, complaining that it is a crime "if a man has a little fight with the wife." He was saying that crime has decreased since his federal takeover of D.C., claiming that statistics show crime is down 87% but that in reality, crime is down "more than 87%." The reason that he's not getting credit for crime being down even further, he claimed, is that there are things that are counted as crimes that should not be. Like domestic violence.
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He would back her into a corner and verbally abuse her for hours. And sometimes Sandra responded in ways that she now regrets-shouting at Gary, throwing things, and slamming doors in frustration. She separated from him to protect herself and the children from Gary's outbursts and coercive control. She was shocked when Gary filed for a protective order, claiming that she had abused him.
Sophie Quinn was sitting in a car with her partner, John Harris, outside a house in Lake Cargelligo on Thursday afternoon when a ute approached from the opposite direction. From the driver's side window, at least three shots were fired, killing her and Harris. Quinn was seven months pregnant with a boy her family say she planned to name Troy.
I WAS DETERMINED to return to Portapique before the snow fell. Anyone who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder will understand why returning to the scene would trigger and heighten the flashbacks, nightmares, and panic attacks I experienced that summer. I knew it would be gruelling and awful, but I felt I needed to go. My sisters Janice and Maureen questioned if I was ready, concerned it would be too much for me.
latest | A Dublin-based garda who carried out a "protracted assault" on his then wife, also a member of the force, has walked free from court on a suspended sentence. Trevor Bolger (48), who was previously attached to Ballymun Garda Station, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Margaret Loftus on October 25, 2012.
In the summer of 1989, Karen Palmer bought a used car for cash, filled it with belongings some clothes, toys, one pot, one pan and a shoebox of photos and disappeared with her new husband and two young daughters. She didn't tell her mother, her friends or her neighbours where she was going. She gave no notice to her employers and landlord, leaving items out on her apartment balcony as a sign she still lived there.
