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A Personal Story of Domestic Violence

By Steven Rodriguez

Last year, there were 43,911 domestic violence arrests in California. Domestic violence occurs in one in three families in the U.S. Last week, one of those families was my sister’s. She was fixing dinner when her husband called. He asked what she was doing, said he’d be home soon. Nothing unusual except his speech was a little slurred. She knew he’d been drinking. She grabbed her purse, hustled their daughter into the car and took off. Usually he was fine; but when her husband drank, he could turn mean and unpredictable. Since he’d lost his job, he’d been drinking more. She’d learned it wasn’t safe to be home when he came home drunk. A wrong word, a misunderstood glance and he could turn from loving to mean in a heartbeat...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).