BERLIN — Saying she feared he would kill her if he had the opportunity, Sandra Marisol Fuentes Huaracha, 25, of Berlin, pleaded to be protected from her husband in a domestic violence petition filed in April.
“He has abused me physically, psychologically and emotionally. I am extremely vulnerable and fearful that he may cause me further harm,” she wrote on April 25, hours after the attack.
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