[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25442]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           A SCOURGING PLAGUE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there are families in America where 
assault, violence and terror at home are a way of life.
  Yvette Cade got a restraining order against her abusive husband, a 
man that she daily and dreadfully feared. But a Virginia judge lifted 
that protective order when her husband, Roger Hargrave, promised he 
would seek counseling.
  Soon after the order was lifted, Yvette went off to her job at a T-
Mobile store. Her husband later walked in the store, doused her with 
gasoline and set her on fire. A customer boldly put out the fire that 
resulted in third-degree burns over 60 percent of Yvette's body.
  That was 4 years ago. Yvette, a survivor, has spent 92 days in the 
hospital and she has had 14 surgeries. She lives in daily turmoil and 
pain, pain inflicted on her by her worthless, wretched husband.
  Mr. Speaker, October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 
Brutality at home cannot remain a dark secret any longer. Domestic 
violence is a national health care issue; a crime and a scourging 
plague on a nation's culture.
  And that's just the way it is.

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