Light sentences send the message that domestic violence does not matter

Bangor Daily News| August, XX 2022

Back home to Maine after a week on Prince Edward Island, cherry tomatoes in my garden that were green when I set out now were bright orange, sunNowers that had been just stalks were now topped by huge spiky buds.

But one thing in Maine hadn’t changed, and that never does change, summer, fall, winter or spring: Domestic violence perpetrators getting away, it seems, with everything short of murder.

It was Raymond Lester in the news when I left Maine. Crossing back in, it was Harry D. Every.
Lester, charged with murdering Nicole Mokeme in Winter Harbor in June, had just been caught by police. But why was he behind the wheel of a car this summer, and not behind bars?

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