The court now has the opportunity to do the right thing and really enforce what their criminal penalties are for violating a restraining order.

It certainly isn't unheard of, or outside the realm of possibility.

Everything that we know about domestic violence is that it is about power and controlling people. That control manifests itself differently in every situation.

You can hear this gasp coming from the community at large, just a sense of disbelief. I think it's a wake-up call...that domestic violence affects every community that we know. There just isn't some magic way that some community is somehow immune.