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Although it does seem to be the EXCEPTION rather then the rule these kind of things happen all the time.
There are a lot of reasons NONE of which excuses this type of treatment.
FORTUNATELY, this woman didn't end up dead because of this error. Too many times, they do.
Had she ended up dead, we wouldn't know anything about this. She needs to get a gun, and learn how to use it. The system does a poor job of protecting women from abusive partners. Here's some statistics just for one county in N.C., where abusers get "days" in jail. Not weeks or months or years. Days.