#embarrassing. i am just glad they’re both safe and she wasn’t permanently injured.

[violetsandshrikes]

Is P safe now? What happened to her husband? How is he not in jail?

P is safe now. He has fucked off to sulk in a different region.

What happened is a typical domestic violence shitshow. Neighbour called the cops. Cops attended (which is a surprise in itself). When I talked to P, it was a week later, and so when she was called to the station to officially recount what happened, I went with her (because she was terrified but also because this is not my first rodeo)

Got told they really couldn’t do anything unless they actually physically saw him lay hands on or attack her. For context: there was also strangulation, which is an upgraded charge in AoNZ because of the seriousness of it. At this point, she still had significant bruising across her throat - you could literally see thumbprints where he had dug them into the area below her ear. (I encouraged her to see a doctor when we first caught up after I saw the marks and found out they’d declined to call an ambulance that night).

0 fucks given. They also did not care he had a gun license or guns. Then I dryly pointed out that the kind of man who would use a gun on his wife and child would also probably use one of them when they were called out.

Suddenly his license was revoked and his weapons confiscated within 24 hours. Funny how that works.