FACING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.Byline: The Register-Guard Domestic violence in this community didn't begin with the death of Paula Ruth Benitez last February. And it certainly hasn't ended. Paula Benitez was the 11th person in Lane County in a six-month span to die from domestic violence, prompting community leaders to call the killings an epidemic. After the 46-year-old Springfield mother of three was shot by her ex-husband, Tomas Ortega-Benitez - who killed himself after a police standoff stand·off n. 1. A tie or draw, as in a contest. 2. A situation in which one force neutralizes or counterbalances the other. 3. A standoff insulator. adj. Standoffish. - The Register-Guard's news staff decided to shine an unremittingly bright light on the topic for the next several months. The coverage begins today with a focus on how violence - physical abuse and threats directed at family members, roommates and partners - filters into our everyday lives. On Friday, April 2, an ordinary day, reporters, photographers and an artist went to courts, on police patrols, to a restraining-order clinic, to a shelter and on home visits with social workers. The single-day snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure. (2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. shows how domestic violence is about fear, control and choices. About bruised bruise v. bruised, bruis·ing, bruis·es v.tr. 1. a. To injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (part of the body) without breaking the skin, as by a blow. b. faces, wounded spirits and shattered shat·ter v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. 2. a. families. And about courage and almost superhuman su·per·hu·man adj. 1. Above or beyond the human; preternatural or supernatural. 2. Beyond ordinary or normal human ability, power, or experience: "soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery" hope: Neighbors who quickly raised $3,000 to help a battered bat·ter 1 v. bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters v.tr. 1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows. 2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse. 3. woman get her car fixed so she could get away and live on her own; a man who leaves his door unlocked so his neighbor can rush in should her abusive husband attack; an abused woman to whom caseworkers were, she said, like `a second parent.' Since the Benitez murder-suicide, community members have called for an increased willingness to look closely at the problem, however difficult that may be, and to take wide, community responsibility for responding to it. "It's not just about what happens in someone's home," Dan Bryant, pastor of First Christian Church First Christian Church can refer to:
CAPTION(S): Paula Ruth Benitez was shot to death by her ex-husband on Feb. 23 |
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