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Mom who fled Iowa, ex-spouse, risks jail on return
Des Moines Register, September 24, 2009
A Decatur County woman who said she fled the state fearing for her life and that of her 7-year-old son is being required to return or risk being arrested. Ringgold County Attorney Clint Spurrier has thus far rejected pleas from advocates of domestic-violence victims to drop a criminal complaint against Hannah Newberry for violating the visitatio... More
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Protesters say NJ court denies justice to women
New Jersey Jewish News, April 30, 2009
More than 100 women, many active in several local and national Jewish organizations, picketed outside the family courts in downtown Newark Monday, demanding that its judges give more equitable treatment to alleged victims of physical and mental abuse. Organizers charged that judges often side with men and tend to disbelieve women’s allegations that they and their children have been physically and sometimes sexually abused by former husbands. More
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