I still hide. It's not easy for a public person, but I do it. I'm a master of it. Gangsters are given new identities, houses, bank accounts, and professions when they testify against criminals meaner, bigger, and badder than they are. Rapists and murderers plea-bargain.
Drug dealers get immunity.
But Susan feels that Nussbaum should have been prosecuted, and a perception is growing that Nussbaum is responsible legally and morally for the death of Lisa Steinberg. But adult women who have been battered are especially not innocent. Battery is a forced descent into hell and you don't get by in hell by moral goodness. You don't survive as a discrete personality with a sense of right and wrong. I was battered when I was married, and there are some things I wish people would understand.