It would seem that we would be on the same page about this, but you can see what happens. Coercive control is so hard to prove. He was somebody who, potentially, could have harmed her in a physical way. There are laws on the books that already deal with potential financial abuse and physical abuse. These are the kinds of things that we could utilize already, but they aren't being utilized in our criminal system.
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