This case below is an example of another area often overlooked or dismissed by some. Female on Female intimate partner violence, sexual assault and murder are not topics you often find at trainings for domestic violence professionals or any mental health professionals. But they should be taught along side the tradtional DV trainings:
May 5, 2009 (WHEATON, Ill.) (WLS) -- A jury returned a guilty verdict Tuesday in the murder trial of a Villa Park woman. Nicole Abusharif was accused of suffocating her longtime domestic partner and putting her body in the trunk of their car back in 2007.
Prosecutors said Abusharif suffocated Rebecca Klein so she could pursue a relationship with another woman. Prosecutors also say insurance money was a motive for the murder. - Read the entire article here
Sunday, June 21, 2009
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Yep, a blind eye is turned to female on female DV as well as female on male DV… Acknowledging it would require women to be held accountable.
--FWO
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