"Last time he beat me up, I was in bed for two months and then I decided to leave"; "I had to leave him or he would have killed me – I had a cut lip open and cut / gash in neck / beaten up and tired of being beat up – I was tired of black eyes and being hospitalized"; "One of us would have ended up in a wheelchair, if I didn’t leave"; "Bad situation, feared for my life and my child’s life"; "I had nothing".
Malgré la menace, l’homme a attenté à la vie de sa conjointe lorsque les enfants étaient absents.