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Criminal

Oct. 8, 2002

Battered Mom Dies Dispite Doing All the Right Things

LOS ANGELES - The battered 21-year-old wife did everything right: She had her husband arrested, fled with her 6-year-old son to a women's shelter, and got a restraining order to stop the violence from recurring.

By Anne La Jeunesse
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        LOS ANGELES - The battered 21-year-old wife did everything right: She had her husband arrested, fled with her 6-year-old son to a women's shelter, and got a restraining order to stop the violence from recurring.
        When the court ordered her to turn the child over to her husband for a si...

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