Abuse news story

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This is a local news story about abuse. It is not specifically about Asperger's Syndrome. It is about a victim that was in an abusive situation.

After decades of being physically abused by her husband, Barbara Sheehan shot and killed her husband and is now on trial for murder.

I as a victim myself can completely understand the fear about reporting it to police, and the posibility that the police will not take it seriously and do anything about it, and the fear of retaliation from the person committing the abuse.

That's a very sad story.

Why are people so cruel to each other? That one mystery that will never be solved.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162- ... 04083.html

This story was on Deadly Women and it talked about after she called the police and they came, that they found evidence that if he had lived a few months longer Obama would probably be dead.

I am a victim of police stalking and bullying me. There has to be oversite over the police. I have to have somewhere to complain about what the police do to me.

Her husand was a police seargant. The only outlet was to complain to his coworkers, and they were not about to help her. He was also abusive to the children. When police bully citizens, take a look at how they treat their family.

I have zero tolerance now. As soon as I notice the police watching me and stalking me, I immediatly call 911 to complain about it. If I am going to be arrested and charged for making frivalous calls to 911, so be it. Let this be a high profile story.

I think people should be allowed to kill their spouses if they are being abused and their life is in danger and they have no way out. Some spouses threaten to kill their wives/husbands if they try and leave them and it has happened. They actually kill them. So killing is the only way out.

IDK....killing the abuser seems like a losing proposition. I sure couldn't do it...wouldn't want to face the abusers' family, or go through a trial, or jail...just because someone tormented me. Just my opinion...maybe I wasn't abused enough to warrant killing my abusers.

I have been in multiple abusive relationships starting with the couple who adopted me. I endured sexual, verbal, & physical abuse. Later, I was involved with immature men who thought it was ok to rape me as well as use verbal, physical, financial abuse against me. One was a stalker who would not let me go...I had to move multiple times & hundreds of miles to get away. Never actually hurt any of my abusers, but I never wished them well either. The worst abuse I dealt with was from my ex-husband....he kept taking me back to court until I lost custody of my only real family-my kids. That almost did me in...which is exactly what he wanted. I was a broken, tormented mess...cried daily for the better part of a year. It still hurts & it's been over 7 years now.

He's getting his payback now. My kids have learned he's a jerk. And he's been out of work for years which has cost him relationships, & his home. So sad, too bad. I wish I could take pity on him, but I don't. He made this mess, & karma has a way of getting even. Still he'll never endure exactly what he did to me...for that he'd need to go to prison & meet up with a 600 pound Bubba.