murder. and yet, this is how valerie is greeted. as she leaves the courthouse in france. a four-year prison sentence, including three suspended, means she is free despite admitting to killing her abusive husband. not a triumph, but still illegal and moral victory. i am not relieved, she said moments earlier. i am empty, mentally and physically. overcome by emotion, she can barely walk. sexually abused by her stepfather, she, eventually, married her tormenter. the investigation revealing a life of beatings, threats, and forced prostitution until she shot him in the head. in her best-selling memoir, "everyone knew," she writes, i only wanted to protect myself. protect my life and that of my children. nothing else ever mattered to me. public opinion skewed, heavily, in her favor.
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