http://www.yvettecadefund.org/index.htm Yvette Cade is an amazing survivor. She had a protection order against her ex-husband Roger Hargrave, and District Court judge Richard A. Palumbo revoked it. Weeks later, Hargrave showed up at Cade’s work and doused her in gasoline and set her on fire! The top website is her home page and is full of [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Another survivors story
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Where some of the laws began…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found an article written by Griffin in 1998 discussing how some of the current laws being used to judge cases where women have killed their abusers were created. They have evolved from a time when it was socially acceptable for MEN to fight each other using fists, and that it was considered an unfair [...]
Really?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.expertlaw.com/library/domestic_violence/battered_women.html This article is very disturbing, it is written by Joe Wheeler Dixon, PhD, JD who has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology & History, a Master of Arts in Psychology , a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology , and a Juris Doctorate of Law. He has much experience with psychology, and has experience with [...]
One of my stories
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ThxeS2MWM7c&hl=en&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ThxeS2MWM7c&hl=en&fs=1” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object> Christina Aguilera’s song “Oh Mother” really hits home with me. I was married to someone that I thought was a good man. He treated my children great and he was very open and giving to me. We dated a [...]
Influencing Factors in Murder in Self Defense
Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found an article from The Free Press, 1987 written aboutAngela Browne of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. Browne compared two groups of abused women, those that killed their abusers and those that did not. Browne found that a higher percentage of abusers that were murdered repeatedly raped their partners, more [...]
