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Editorial
Sympathetic ear often what abuse victims need
The night before Joyce Carwile was killed March 19, she told a police dispatcher her husband had a gun and had said he wished she were dead.
A witness told investigators the following night that the 59-year-old Fort Wayne woman lay wounded on the front lawn.
“Good,” David Carwile, 65, later told police, according to court documents. “I hope she dies.”
She did, and he is charged with her murder. An Oct. 26 trial date is scheduled.
The local tragedy represents the most extreme form of many types of domestic violence. A new initiative designed to motivate those on the periphery of those awful situations to listen and help could lead to an escape for some victims.
While Bill Cosby reportedly flashed a V-for-victory sign as he returned to his home near Philadelphia, local advocates for sexual abuse survivors call his release anything but. It is unfortunate that this happened, and that the survivors in this case, and many others, do not get the justice they deserve, said Becca Emerson, anti-trafficking coordinator at Fair Haven Rape Crisis Center in Highland.Â
On Wednesday, news spread fast of Pennsylvania s highest court throwing out Cosby s sexual assault conviction and releasing him from prison. The court ruled that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor s agreement not to charge Cosby, according to the Associated Press.
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