Hesitation to call police can stem from fears that doing so could prompt retaliation from an abusive partner or lead to the loss of child custody, said Meg Dalabes, Director of Community Education and Development at ACT, a Fort Myers, Florida-based domestic violence center.
But she would not answer questions about Katie’s earlier police reports, in which her office had not brought charges. But when Katie was 15, the family was upended. She and her older sister Kim loved their father, McKinney said. When he ran out on them, with no farewell and no warning, it unmoored them both.
And his two previous wives had accused him of assaulting them, according to court records in Indiana.“There was so much, so much domestic abuse,” McKinney said. “I flipped out. I called him and I asked him to come to my house.” Rachel Calvert met Ian at the gym in 2004. She lived in Jeffersonville, Indiana; he was finishing his psychology degree across the river at the University of Louisville. They married the next year, and the abuse started when she was about eight months pregnant, Calvert said.
“Then they all hated him and they didn’t want me there. At that point I had to choose,” Goldsmith said. “Was I going to leave and be a single mom and figure out my whole life again, or was I going to stay and work it out because he said he was going to change?” “When a woman has been manipulated and coerced for so long, it’s very hard for them to have to go into court with their abuser,” Goldsmith said. “They have to defend themselves all over again.”New victim, same storyIan and Katie moved repeatedly across the country – first to Florida in 2015, then to Massachusetts where they had their son, and then back to Indiana, where they had a daughter.
He eventually loosened his grip, grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the floor, according to the report. She ran to a bedroom and called the Sheriff’s Office, as Ian allegedly fled the house in the family’s pickup truck. She sat up each night with a gun, terrified that she would see Ian emerge from the long dark driveway to finish what he started, McKinney said.The State Attorney’s Office charged Ian with domestic battery by strangulation, a felony that carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. And a judge issued a restraining order barring Ian from communicating with Katie.
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