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Group gives battered women hope When a woman seeks services at Southwest Women, the group wraps her in a continuum of care
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Shelley Hughley grew up watching her father beat her mother. She
vowed it would never happen to her. But it did.
She and her date were headed to her mother's house in New York
City the first time he hit her. She got off the train and ran through
Times Square.
"I ran out of my shoes and no one stopped to help me."
He followed her to her mother's house and attacked her again. Her
sister called the police, who let him go -- and he returned later
that night and attacked her ag...
