Domestic violence specialist Ray Torres runs a discussion group on the Big Island for domestic abusers, part of a 28-week domestic violence intervention program. At left are discussion-group participants Russell Lawrence and Ronald Delos Santos.

Posted on: December 18, 2008
Intervention programs offer Hawaii abusers some insight
Joe never hit, kicked or slapped his wife. Because of that, he never considered himself a domestic abuser. That hardly mattered when his wife earlier this year told him she was filing for divorce and demanded that he move out of their O'ahu home. For her, the years-long emotional and mental abuse had become too much.


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Day 6: Training

Hilo Police Capt. Randall Medeiros called Jeffrey Boyd Santos Jr.'s demeanor

The murder and confession
Posted on: December 19, 2008
On Nov. 1, 2006, Daysha was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey Boyd Santos Jr., a man she had lived with and loved, and the father of her only child. She was 21. This is her story as told by her journals, her family and her friends. She is missed, and she is remembered.

The Rev. Al Miles helps victims of domestic violence at The Queen's Medical Center chapel. He's the author of the book

Many ill-prepared to deal with problem
Posted on: December 19, 2008
The two men who were charged with the first two domestic-violence murders on O'ahu this year were on parole at the time of the killings.

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