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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Tory Shepherd

When Alice reported her husband to SA police, they said ‘people fight’. But it was far more than fighting

Silhouette of a distressed young woman
The SA domestic violence royal commission’s report includes 136 recommendations, some of which the government has already agreed to. Photograph: kieferpix/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Alice* says that when she met the man who would become her husband, she didn’t see any of the red flags that eventually led to her being “physically, emotionally, verbally, financially and systematically abused by him”.

“Whilst pregnant he would shove me into walls, pushed me and backed me into corners yelling in my face,” she wrote.

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