Justice. A day late and a dollar short.

[Horse with no Name]

Unbelievable.:cry:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/030607dnmettwodead.2166620a.html

RVING – Elia Martinez-Bermudez's boyfriend threatened to kill her, their children and then himself if she ever left him, the Irving woman said in an affidavit she filed for a protective order against him in Dallas County on Friday.

By the time a district court judge granted the temporary restraining order Monday morning, the couple's children were already dead.

[Kagemusha]

1. Like the restraining order is a detterent against murder.

It's not an invisible force field...

[Horse with no Name]

2. Did you read the story?

The woman was psychologically abused as well physically and sexually.

"He told me since I had called the police the day before for him destroying my belongings and the police had not been able to help me, they would give me a ticket for bothering them so much," she said. "Hector stated since I did not have any bruising they would not believe me. I believed Hector, so I did not call for help."

What a restraining order would have done was given her the confidence that she could call the police without fear of getting "a ticket".

[Kagemusha]

3. You may be right, but a determined murderer is hard to stop

And this is truly, genuinely not meant as some sort of excuse for slowness in the system but, calling the police wasn't necessarily going to stop the murder here, either. Reasonable measures don't work well on people who abandon all reason.

It's a horrid crime either way...