FAST FORWARD TO MODERN AGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

THOSE OF YOU WHO READ THE PREVIOUS BLOG WILL BE INTERESTED TO HEAR THE WORDS OF SENTENCING JUDGE  ROBERT  E. CAHILL OF OF THE BALTIMORE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT IN MARYLAND.  "I CANNOT THINK OF A CIRCUMSTANCE WHEREBY PERSONAL RAGE IS (MORE) UNCONTROLLABLE...THAN THIS FOR SOMEONE WHO IS HAPPILY MARRIED.   I SHUDDER TO THINK WHAT I WOULD DO."    THIS FOLLOWING THE DEFENDANT'S MURDER OF HIS  WIFE, WHO HE SAID WAS SLEEPING AROUND. THERE WAS TESTIMONY THAT THIS WAS A FACT, NEVER MIND THAT THE HUSBAND WAS AN ABUSIVE ALCOHOLIC, AND HAD ALMOST KILLED HER TWICE.     THAT WAS NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER INTO THE PICTURE.  SO, SINCE SHE WAS A "BAD VICTIM", SHE WAS THROWN AWAY. THIS HAPPENS ALMOST EVERY DAY IN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.   THE MURDERER WAS MADE  BASICALLY A NON-CRIMINAL, RECEIVED 18 MONTHS IN JAIL WITH WORK RELEASE AND THE JUDGE EVEN APOLOGIZED TO THE MAN FOR UNCOMFORTABLE JAIL.CONDITIONS.  THIS COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT THE PROSECUTOR'S PLEA  BARGAINING. 
WITHOUT ADVOCATES FOR THE VICTIM KEEPING HIM HONEST, THIS MAN OF JUSTICE CONSIDERED THE BENCH HIS PERSONAL ASYLUM. BUT FOR A REPORTER'S UNEXPECTED PRESENCE, HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT.
LEARN, LEARN, LEARN.  KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.  KNOW WHO TO LIE DOWN WITH OR NOT.  VALUING YOURSELF AND PROTECTING YOURSELF IS OH, SO SMART.
MILLIE   .