Guardianship for coercively controlled battered women: Breaking the control of the abuser

Georgetown Law Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 605-

  Jones, Ruth ^a  

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References (7)

1. Court Decisions, First Judicial Department, New York County Supreme Court, 217 N.Y.L.J. 26, 26 (1997) [hereinafter Court Decisions].
2. John Feinblatt, Battered Lives: Finding the Whys of Domestic Violence is Tough, ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, July 18, 1989, at 1D.
3. See Francine Russo, The Faces of Hedda Nussbaum, N.Y. TIMES, Mar. 30, 1997, at F1. "In only eight years, [her friends and former colleagues say], she was transformed from a skillful, articulate senior editor and author of children's books at Random House to an increasingly ineffective and absent employee whom the publishing house had to dismiss, reluctantly, in August 1982." Steven Enlarger, Bright Promise and Dark Decline: Portrait of Couple in Child Murder Case, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 6, 1987, at B3.
4. See Francine Russo, The Faces of Hedda Nussbaum, N.Y. TIMES, Mar. 30, 1997, at F1. "In only eight years, [her friends and former colleagues say], she was transformed from a skillful, articulate senior editor and author of children's books at Random House to an increasingly ineffective and absent employee whom the publishing house had to dismiss, reluctantly, in August 1982." Steven Enlarger, Bright Promise and Dark Decline: Portrait of Couple in Child Murder Case, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 6, 1987, at B3.
5. For a description of the methods Steinberg used to control Nussbaum, see Nussbaum Affidavit in Opposition to Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment ¶ 5, Nussbaum v. Steinberg, 618 N.Y.S.2d 168 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1994) (No. 23416-88) [hereinafter Nussbaum Affidavit].
6. Joel Steinberg injured Hedda Nussbaum by beating her violently and repeatedly. He beat her "across the hands with a broomstick," "burned various parts of [her] body" with a torch, "used a stick to beat [her] about [her] sexual organs, causing swelling for some months. He then beat [her] again, causing [her] to hemorrhage. On two occasions [he] threw [her] to the ground and urinated on [her]. On numerous occasions, [Steinberg] beat [her] with a metal exercise bar . . . and pulled hair out of [her] head." Nussbaum Affidavit, supra note 4, ¶ 4.
7. See Nussbaum Affidavit, supra note 4, ¶ 4; see also People v. Steinberg, 573 N.Y.S.2d 965, 969 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991).