For 19 years, Lisa Banfield lived with a man described as a controlling, abusive psychopath who repeatedly beat her.
“The things Gabriel would do to me included: grabbing me sexually physically push me around ,” she saidin a written statement provided to the inquiry June 22. In previously released interviews with the RCMP, Banfield had said the first two and a half years of their relationship were positive, and she described her spouse as “loving, kind and generous.”
“Ms. Banfield told the commission that throughout her relationship with the perpetrator, she had to focus on what was in front of her at that moment, rather than what happened in the past as a means of coping,” the 100-page summary of evidence says. For years, she worked as his assistant at the denture clinic, which provided her only source of income. Her family was worried she was becoming too dependent on him.
My take is don't move to strange insular parts of NS where nobody sees or hears a thing and people sell their house and move to another province because of weird neighbours. It's like the real victims aren't even important.
Why are you still focusing on the 'abused partner' angle when it is so incredibly clear that what matters is the rcmps uvalde level failure to respond. Shameful