Somehow, Juana had managed to work up a little courage and protested. She knew a neighbor who had left an abusive husband. She was going to leave him, she told him for the first time. He threaten to kill her, cut her up and feed her to the alligators. Without a body, he would say, he could not be convicted of her murder.
Fear is the number one reason for staying.
She stayed for seven years. Juana filed an Injunction for Protection while he was in jail. From jail, he called her father in California and he threaten him and her to make her drop the charges against him. He said he had not done anything wrong. She was just making up stories because she probably had a boy friend and wanted him out of the picture.