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Domestic abuse victims await family justice center


Domestic abuse victims await family justice center
AMANDA ZHOU, The Charlotte Observer
March 14, 2021
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Audra Toussaint knows the Mecklenburg County Courthouse so well she could give tours. But she didn’t come to know the courthouse as a lawyer or a judge or even as a bailiff.
She came to know the courthouse as a survivor of domestic abuse.
In the past seven years, 52-year-old Toussaint has taught herself to navigate the ins and outs of the legal system to keep herself and her daughter safe from her abuser. She’s renewed a restraining order against her abuser multiple times, filed motions on her own and appeared before a magistrate at least 10 times. She’s even picked up on the temperament of some of the judges. ....

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