Protection orders not enough to save 3 women

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Protection orders not enough to save 3 women

Debbie Lynn Bonilla was trying to get her husband into batterer's treatment. Baerbel Roznowski had just gotten an anti-harassment order against her boyfriend.

Tracey Lee Creamer repeatedly called police after her husband bruised and bloodied her, hoping that someone would stop him.

Each woman had sought help from police or courts. But within a span of two weeks, each was slain in King County, allegedly by their partners.

Bonilla was stabbed in front of her children. Roznowski was killed three hours after her boyfriend received the protection order. Creamer was found strangled and beaten, her body decomposing inside her husband's van.

Their recent deaths underscore the dangers and misery of domestic violence, still pervasive despite decades of advocacy work, tougher laws and specialized legal units designed to root out the problem.

The article continues at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/362701_domestic12.html