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Posted on: October 22nd, 2007
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“Like many women she knows, Maria da Penha endured her husband’s physical abuse for years, hoping he’d stop.

He didn’t, and after repeated beatings and other mistreatment, her husband tried to kill her — twice. Da Penha decided to leave.

Putting him behind bars was another matter. During the next 20 years, da Penha won two convictions against her ex-husband for attempted homicide, but Brazilian courts nullified the first conviction and delayed making a final decision on the appeal of the second one.”*

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