It is hard being 64 years old & HOMELESS !!!

Terri

Terri

It was hard when we went to court for the LAST act of abuse. On a winter night, I had 5 week-old baby, was in a nightie when it started. I had a fractured jaw, black eyes, lumps/scars (the size of a large pea) above my lip that showed all the time and more if I smiled (& still have). I had lacerations on my back, front, my breast had claw marks on them. I ran through a cane field barefooted, & in my blood stained ripped nightie, where there were snakes & rats to a neighbours house abt 1 km away (had never met them. They phone the Police who collected me & took me home to collect my baby. If I had picked her up he would have know I was "running" & would have killed me. I ran through the cane fields for fear if I ran on the road he would run over me. After the Officer arrived at the neighbours (from a one man Station) he asked if my ex still had firearms I said yes, I explained were they were kept ---- in the back of a wardrobe & that the bullets were kept in a draw in the top of his dresser drawers. The Officer then went in leaving me in his vehicle. The Officer came out with a rifle, discharged it & then asked me to to go in & collect my baby, which I did. We left to head to the small one man Police Station with me in still wearing my the blood stained ripped nightie & my baby (with no extra clothing for either of us. My parent arrived at the station to collect us & take me to hospital for treatment.

 

Later when we went to court the Judge told me I deserve the "hiding you received that I should have given him sex so, I was NOT bashed up." But that was the cause or start of the assault......................... I had closed the front door that had a dead bolt lock only, & when he arrived home after 13 hours at a PUB he didn't have his keys to let himself in. 

My parents fought hard to make sure I didn't go back again (had left 4 times prior after other physical violence but went back).

He never went to prison for ANY assaults. I later found out that two women before me as well as his last wife ALL suffered from DV assaults.

Terri