Commissioner, the wife suffered physical and verbal abuse by her husband.

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The mother countered that she hid the abuse and praised her husband in the deposition, because she was under his control.

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Her 88-year-old husband also alleged he was a victim of domestic abuse - at the hands of his wife - when he was taken into Southend Hospital in 2010.

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My third husband had to be arrested on my complaint for spousal abuse but after two years apart and a year of therapy on his part we reunited.

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On Tuesday, Sandusky's wife told jurors that she could remember at least six of her husband's accusers staying overnight at their house, and said she did not witness any sexual abuse.

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