May 27, 2008

.so many things.

i have so little time and so many files and so many things i wanna talk about.

1) jayson dalton [a real story]

i watched a video with my colleagues yesterday on this man. we were learning about domestic violence. this man was so in love with his wife and his kids. he was a perfectionist and a control freak. he wanted everything his way, that he even chose the bridemaid's dress during him and dionne's wedding.

after marriage, he basically cut off his wife from contacting her family, desperate to keep her all to himself. their first girl came, jess, 4 months after their marriage. the crazy bit was, a few days after giving birth, dionne was demanded by jayson to go back to work at their family business. he was already hitting her then.

refusing sexual intercourse with her husband, jayson forced himself on dionne one nite... which led to dionne falling pregnant with patrick, their second child. things just got bad to worse from there. so dionne took the kids and ran.

jayson chased her all the way down to the gold coast, knowing dionne was heading down to her mother's. he pulled up right behind her as she arrived. he took a swing at dionne's mother, who was carrying partrick at the time, although it only caught her mum in the hand. they called the police.

weeks later, dionne suffered from a psychiatric illness. hallucination and etc (as we wouldn't be surprised) and she was sent to a mental institution. the kids were left without their mother. jayson learnt of this and applied for custody, AND WON.

loooong story short... when dionne got out, she applied to get custody back, and succeeded. however, on the day of the changeover of the kids, jayson did the extreme.

he wrote dionne a suicide email... right before he shot their two kids, and then himself.

dionne's first reaction to the news was filmed, and all our hearts broke. i pride myself in being able to hold back my tears. and that is when i realised, i can take on family law.

i just need to learn now to see things from jayson's point of view. cuz u never know, i might have to play defence lawyer for a 'person' like that some day too. sigh.

2) what did you do during the New Year?

i also had a sudden urge to share with people my new founding. remember that lucky kiss on new year? the kiss that is suppose to give you good luck for the rest of the year?

dont take that kiss lightly. apparently, how you spend your new year's kiss can determine your entire year's love luck. i remember what i did on new year... and its exactly what i'm being punished with now.

HA HA. :(

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