Restraining orders are useless. What she needed was a gun to protect herself.
I have a large (and scattered all over the U.S.) family on my Mother’s side, and in the 1970s met a first cousin for the first time at my grandma’s house. We hit it off, she was a smart, sweet young woman. We sat on Grandma’s porch swing and talked for hours.
She had married a big drug dealer, very violent man in Ohio. She told me that he had shot at her, beat her to a pulp, and that someday he’d kill her.
Being the redneck girl I am, I asked her why she didn’t change her identity and take her nine year old daughter and flee the country, go where he couldn’t find her.
She replied, “He’ll find me, no matter where I go, and he will kill me someday.”
So, I said “Then I’d kill him first (and I meant it). If I thought somebody was determined to kill me, I’d kill them first, especially if I had a child to think of.
She didn’t leave him, and a few weeks after I met her, he was beating her, and her nine year old daughter called the police. He had told my cousin he would kill her if she ever called the police on him.
After the daughter called 9/11, then hung up the phone, the 9/11 operator (or police) called the house back, to make sure it wasn’t a prank.
He answered the phone. When he hung up the phone he blew my cousin’s head off in front of the nine year old daughter, then put the kid in the car and drove her to his brother’s house. He sat in the yard and blew his head off.
I say my cousin should have killed that ***** long ago and worried about the consequences later. I would have.
"...he will kill me someday.”
Nicole Brown Simpson had said the same thing.
What ever happened to the nine year old?
Then why didn't you?