A new documentary looks at women who survived domestic violence -- then faced jail time

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. I actually knew someone

who killed her abusive husband. She was charged with second degree murder and went to trial where a jury found her not guilty. (I was kind of surprised because this happened in a smallish city in Tennessee.) It was splashed all over the local paper. There were allegations that the husband had also sexually abused the oldest daughter, who refused to testify on the stand about that but did testify that he had physically abused her and her mother. The mother went on to go back to school and get her bachelor's and master's in social work and now works with women who have been abused.