"...A Little Bit of Validation..."

Felony charges for kidnapping were finally dropped for Holly Collins. She was forced to plead guilty to contempt of court, obviously for violating court orders in interfering with custody/visitation rights.

This is a something that we domestic violence survivors in the U.S. have been holding our breath on. (I have been holding my breath a lot lately). Stopfamilyviolence.org has been instrumental in publicizing Holly's case so that she could return to the U.S. without risk of imprisonment.

In one of many interviews, she said she would do it all over again.

I know where she is coming from...I wonder why women all over aren't or haven't been doing it--especially in cases of sexual abuse.

I'll have to hold my tongue on my deeper comments on this issue...maybe I'll be freer in the near future...


"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.