1 year ago
30
HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Experts with the Marjaree Mason Center are reacting to Tuesday's tragic domestic unit homicide successful Hanford.
Leticia Campos with the halfway said what happened to 22-year-old Madeline Cuevas is devastating, and she is heartbroken to perceive of different home unit homicide successful the valley.
Domestic unit advocates similar Campos said, often times, having children tin complicate already unsafe relationships.
"This is the worst-case scenario. A homicide similar this is the worst-case scenario," Campos said.
Police are inactive searching for alleged slayer and ex-boyfriend Jonathan Alexis Maldonado-Cruz, but astir importantly, they're searching for their children 3-year-old Arya Maldonado and 2-year-old Alana Maldonado.
Campos said portion she does not cognize the details surrounding their relationship, oregon immoderate custody arrangements they had with their children, having kids often times tin marque already hostile situations worse.
"Oftentimes there's either fearfulness that they aren't going to support custody of their children and they volition suffer their children. There's fearfulness that of retaliation. There's fearfulness of what we saw contiguous that they are going to beryllium killed oregon oftentimes the children are threatened arsenic well," Campos said.
She said different heartbreaking statistic tin beryllium however home unit tin escalate adjacent aft a narration has ended.
"Leaving a relationship, separation from a relationship, does thin to beryllium the astir unsafe clip for the unfortunate successful this, and the children," Campos said.
Campos said what is important present is that the children are recovered safely and that radical successful the assemblage cognize they tin scope retired to the Marjaree Mason Center immoderate clip for help.
"We are present 24/7. We ne'er close," She said.
If you request help, delight click here for accusation connected however to scope retired to the Marjaree Mason Center.
