Um, I have a cane, and I am pretty sure it is bigger and more painful than the one he used to beat her with.

Want me to loan it to you for a while? I don't care if you return it with some dents/stains on it, though if you did, I'd be impressed.

What a nightmare. Hopefully he will spend eternity in a very hot place. While she is without pain, and him, in Heaven.

Best wishes dealing with this. Don't know what I'd do but would be damned angry, to say the least.

Sorry for your stress Susan, what a terrible situation. What makes it even worse is you SIL seems to be suffering physically and mentally, as a chronic abuse victim. Just remember, there's really only so much you can do or feel responsible for. Sucks but thats the way it is.

Oh, yes! She's one of those who just doesn't get the fact that she's as good as anyone. Most seem to be trained into it from childhood, one way or another.

The maggot has already got the house transferred into his name. The insurance, well, it might be changed, but I kind of doubt that it will happen.

The witness daughter is mentally and emotionally handicapped herself, so she wouldn't press charges if you put a million dollars into her hands and a gun to her head.

Well, he MIGHT get what he has coming, but I WANT IT TO HAPPEN RIGHT AWAY, AND I WANT TO WATCH!

What? Vindictive? ME? So do you have a problem with that, or what?

Mike

I have felt for quite awhile that it is ok to wish evil people ill. I don't appologize for it. There is cosmic justice. To not want this justice is unacceptable to me and hoping for it under the right circumstances is proper and moral.

Interesting, if there is such a thing as "cosmic justice" wouldn't that imply that wishing for it is a waste of time? If it exists it will occur, if it doesn't, then no amount of wishing for it will do any good.

Somebody said once that everybody gets what they deserve and nobody really deserves what they get in life.

Karma just is, one can no more wish for it than one can wish for the moon to rise, it's not always fair and it's surely not always just, it just is.

Whatever else may happen, the man in question has to live with what he is, given how he's been described here, that's pretty good punishment all by itself.

In CA the spousal violence folks with the DA prosecute regardless of what the victim says; it is the State not the victim that prosecutes.

If a senior in CA the elder physical and financial abuse laws are pretty quickly and thoroughly enforced as well.

Might pay to talk to a lawyer-type as well as someone in Adult Protective Services or its equivalent in your jurisdiction.

I agree with your points. I guess that I really wish that my desire for justice would somehow help it happen but I know it doesn't.

Last word from me on this.

This is the phone number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline

800-799-SAFE (7233)

I would suggest that anyone who knows of someone who is being abused call it.