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Domestic violence victims remembered, survivors honoredPublished 02/06/07
He doused her with alcohol. He threw her off a boat. He shoved her through a window. Photo no longer available
Alison Harbaugh - The Capital
With state police Col. Tim Hutchins behind her, state police Capt. Laura Lu Herman reads at a memorial service last night the names of Marylanders who died from domestic violence. People hold heart-shaped posters for each victim who died between July 2005 and June 2006.
One night, after Dawn's boyfriend dragged her out of bed by her hair, she swallowed everything in her medicine cabinet to escape the pain.
But Dawn, whose last name is being withheld for her safety, stayed with her abuser for 4½ years, even after she moved out and he went to jail. The Anne Arundel County woman even had his daughter. Then investigator David Cordle asked her some questions. Her answers revealed that her abuser could very well kill her. "Taking that assessment changed my life. Because of it, I'm alive today," said Dawn, who...
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