In the Domestic Violence filed, one question comes up over and over again - Why doesn't she leave? Next time someone asks you that question, or you are wondering the same thing yourself, please read the following two stories. They prove why many victims don't leave - it becomes the most dangerous when a victim tries to leave her abuser and become a survivor.
Wife of ex-NYPD cop missing, feared dead
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Police are searching for a Bronx mother of four who has been missing since last Friday and is feared dead.
Tina Adovasio, 40, a nurse, had been fighting with her estranged husband, Edwin Coello, 40, a former NYPD police officer.
Adovasio filed for divorce just a month before going missing. Police responded to four domestic violence complaints over the course of her marriage with Coello.
“As a survivor of domestic violence, it doesn’t look good,” said Tanya Mcleod, a domestic violence survivor and senior campaign organizer of Voices Of Women. “When victims of domestic violence take
Tina Adovasio, 40, a nurse, had been fighting with her estranged husband, Edwin Coello, 40, a former NYPD police officer.
Adovasio filed for divorce just a month before going missing. Police responded to four domestic violence complaints over the course of her marriage with Coello.
“As a survivor of domestic violence, it doesn’t look good,” said Tanya Mcleod, a domestic violence survivor and senior campaign organizer of Voices Of Women. “When victims of domestic violence take
a stand, that’s when their lives are at high risk.”
Eric Persaud, Queens man who burned girlfriend's face with hot iron, sentenced to 13 years in prison
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...Persaud, 36, flew into a rage on April 30, 2009, because he was upset that she'd called 911 a week before when he smashed her phone and computer. He promised to kill her if she called the cops again.
...Persaud called the woman hundreds of times from Rikers Island, begging her not to testify against him.
Sincerely,
N. Jerin Arifa
Project Speak Out Manager
New York Asian Women's Center (NYAWC)
N. Jerin Arifa
Project Speak Out Manager
New York Asian Women's Center (NYAWC)
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