Every time 28-year-old Donnis Brookes looks at her body, the many scars remind her of the years of abuse she endured at the hands of the man who had promised to love and cherish her. Today, 14 years after it all began, she wants her now ex-husband to quit stalking her; she just wants to live in peace.
She was 14 years old and still at school when she met him. At the time he would have been in his 20s. A relationship started which had nothing to do with love, but everything to do with the attention she received from him and the financial support she so desperately needed.
Brookes’s tale of desperate financial circumstances back then is similar to
