Girl songs: Domestic violence in North Dakota
March 19, 2010 3 Comments
Last week, we had a couple shocking domestic violence incidents in one day. First, a woman was beaten to death by her husband in a trailer home. The man then drove to his parents house 20 miles away and called the police. He left her 3-year-old son alone with the dead woman to wait for police.
My friend Mary Jane (who lives in Maine) says a long winter in a trailer does things like that to people.
But it doesn’t explain why a state legislator was arrested the same day for punching his wife in the face. It was the second time he’d been arrested for doing that. The governor says the guy should step down if he’s convicted on this second count, sending the message to all of North Dakota that you get one wife beating for free here (says Prairie blog author Jim Fuglie).
And, now we have a theme song from Kris Kitko…
On a related note: On April 30, the Abused Adult Resource Center will host a Concert for Courage at the Pier in Southport. So far, it’ll star
- Amy Forde (who comes to the jams and sings the most beautiful sad songs–always makes me cry.)
- Kris Kitko (who made the video just above there.)
- John Lardinois (a guy)
Keep an eye on the AARC’s Facebook page for updates.
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I’m absolutely speechless. The first incident is beyond appalling & the David Weiler story is just disgusting on so many levels. It’s a pity that his wife is not speaking up.
Those northern highline states are brutal for women. Several years back a high status educator in Montana held his wife down on their bed and shot bullets around her head, as a warning. It’s too common. Thanks for bringing light to the issue again.
I agree that Dave Weiler should resign from office until he gets things right in his family. I heard rumblings about certain things reported in the media that are and aren’t true about this case, but I don’t have the facts. In either case, either a) he did it, either one or both times, and needs to step down; or b) he didn’t do it one or both times, and his family is in disarray and he needs to step down.
I do not think he needs to be replaced with a Democrat.
It’s interesting how a little mention of domestic abuse by a local Republican politician gets all this traction, but mention of domestic abuse by certain US Senators from our state vanished with the wind decades ago…