I thought I was finally safe when the police arrested my husband for domestic violence, but little did I know that he would soon use the New York State legal system to do to me what he could no longer do with his hands. …

Each day’s sexual assault headlines are a nightmare, causing me to relive the domestic violence and repeated rape threats I experienced. The police regularly visited our home, going back as far as 1996. My husband always made excuses for why my son “inadvertently” called them. …