PeaceCorpReject
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Alabama
This story is from some time ago, at least 25 years, but I would still like to know if anything can be done. I recently learned from my mother all the things her ex husband has done to her. This has left her emotionally damaged and consequently, damaged my entire family as well. She has suffered from depression and would often have suicide attempts. I never understood why she felt so hopeless until she described some of the things this man has done to her. Here is a bit of what she claims has been done and a bit of the background of the circumstances. This is an excerpt from something I have written trying to find a way to have this man arrested.
My siblings are from my mother's previous marriage to a man she always told me was very bad, he would often threaten my family when I was young. Recently I have learned just how horrible this man was and my perception of my mother has changed. She is embarrassed about what happened to her but I could not be prouder. She married a man she didn't love because her parents encouraged her to. She was 17 at the time. She soon became pregnant and he began to beat her. A year later she became pregnant a second time and he would beat her ,rape her, and once even stabbed her in the stomach to try and kill the unborn baby. As time went on, things worsened. He would drug her and sell her body to men she did not know. She told me of once when he had forced her to take some sort of drug and the last thing she remembered were two men coming into the room. When she awoke she was covered in bruises,cuts, as well as evidence of sexual activity. She took her two young children, a young woman of 21 and two toddlers, and walked through a dangerous neighborhood in the rain to try and speak to her mother from a payphone. She was always too embarrassed to say anything but the voice of her mother always comforted her. This man has been arrested three times for child molestation and sodomy, not only his second wife’s children but others as well. He also attempted to kill his second wife’s son by running him over in a van, the boy was paralyzed. He was only in jail for a short time and is now living free. I would like help, any sort of help, to put this man away. I have tried to tell my mother that she should not be embarrassed but proud to have survived and fought so hard. There are so many more things he has done. This is only the tip of the iceberg and I would like to cause his freedom to sink.
Any ideas? I am young with little money but I would do whatever I possibly can to find justice.
This story is from some time ago, at least 25 years, but I would still like to know if anything can be done. I recently learned from my mother all the things her ex husband has done to her. This has left her emotionally damaged and consequently, damaged my entire family as well. She has suffered from depression and would often have suicide attempts. I never understood why she felt so hopeless until she described some of the things this man has done to her. Here is a bit of what she claims has been done and a bit of the background of the circumstances. This is an excerpt from something I have written trying to find a way to have this man arrested.
My siblings are from my mother's previous marriage to a man she always told me was very bad, he would often threaten my family when I was young. Recently I have learned just how horrible this man was and my perception of my mother has changed. She is embarrassed about what happened to her but I could not be prouder. She married a man she didn't love because her parents encouraged her to. She was 17 at the time. She soon became pregnant and he began to beat her. A year later she became pregnant a second time and he would beat her ,rape her, and once even stabbed her in the stomach to try and kill the unborn baby. As time went on, things worsened. He would drug her and sell her body to men she did not know. She told me of once when he had forced her to take some sort of drug and the last thing she remembered were two men coming into the room. When she awoke she was covered in bruises,cuts, as well as evidence of sexual activity. She took her two young children, a young woman of 21 and two toddlers, and walked through a dangerous neighborhood in the rain to try and speak to her mother from a payphone. She was always too embarrassed to say anything but the voice of her mother always comforted her. This man has been arrested three times for child molestation and sodomy, not only his second wife’s children but others as well. He also attempted to kill his second wife’s son by running him over in a van, the boy was paralyzed. He was only in jail for a short time and is now living free. I would like help, any sort of help, to put this man away. I have tried to tell my mother that she should not be embarrassed but proud to have survived and fought so hard. There are so many more things he has done. This is only the tip of the iceberg and I would like to cause his freedom to sink.
Any ideas? I am young with little money but I would do whatever I possibly can to find justice.
