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How Colleges Are Supporting Students Leaving Abusive Relationships [calhealthreport.org]

 

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report, July 27, 2020

Ana Blanco looked up from her hospital bed at the police officer. Her legs were bandaged, and stung with pain. She tried to focus on what he was saying. Did she want to file a restraining order against her husband?

Blanco had just told the officer how, on the way home from her college psychology class, her husband had ordered her out of the truck and then begun driving away as she tried to remove her school bag. She had been dragged about 20 feet, broken her toe and torn the skin from her legs.

β€œYou could have died,” Blanco remembers the officer saying.

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