Its like they have a list of characteristics of an abused woman and they are systematically accusing travis of everyone of them. I think they just threw the pedo in there for good measure.
I tend to agree they're throwing in whatever can cast him in the worst light possible. Who doesn't revile a pedophile?
In terms of the abuse though, we have: financial, religious, sexual, physical
and emotional in a 5 month relationship with absolutely
no escalation. :waitasec: To hear Jodi's accounts he was beating her silly on like date #3. (Okay, I might be prone to hyperbole here.) In my past six years of volunteer work and personal research into domestic violence, hers is the first I've heard of that started out so brutally physically abusive with little to no romancing and lead up of emotional abuse.
It will be interesting to see if the defense DV expert broaches
that area. Or if its skipped over for 'convenience'.
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And...on the topic of whether Travis used Jodi for sex. Moot point BUT sexual coercion is very common in abusive relationships. My opinion is the reason sex is so front and foreword in this case is because their sex history can be (probably with some aid of the defense DV expert) manipulated to appear as consistent with intimate partner violence.
Their sex history (the pics, the phone sex tape, and texts) and a few choice names are really the only 'evidence' they have. On their own they aren't evidence of abuse but with a few twists and turns, and the testimony of both Jodi and her expert, this is where I think its all leading.
Sex is crucial to abuse if they can sway the jury that it's humiliating, demeaning, degrading and Jodi was forced to comply.
Personally, I think its a hell of a long shot.
MOO
