Rape. Child Abuse and Molestation. Assemblyman from West Covina won't face domestic violence charges. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has decided not… (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated…) SACRAMENTO — Prosecutors have decided not to file domestic violence charges against state Assemblyman Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina), saying there is insufficient evidence to back a former girlfriend's allegations that he physically abused her.
The decision by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office stems from an argument the couple had at the Lazy Dog Cafe in West Covina. The district attorney's report said Hernandez said during the argument that "he was going to call police about [the woman] threatening a member of the state Assembly. " The woman, Carolina Taillon, called police, "considering the comment as a threat to her," the report said. Taillon told responding officers that Hernandez had assaulted her on two separate occasions in July.
Aldo A. "We believe it's frivolous and we will make short work of it," Flores said. "That was from exhaustion," Flores said. Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Can Damage Long-Term Mental Health. Getty Images By Amanda MacMillan TUESDAY, August 2, 2011 (Health.com) — Women are drastically more likely to develop a mental disorder at some point in their lives if they have been the victim of rape, sexual assault, stalking, or intimate-partner violence, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
While the connection between these harrowing experiences and poor mental health is hardly surprising, experts say the new findings highlight just how strongly the two problems are intertwined—and how important it is for doctors and other health-care workers to ask women about past episodes of violence, even if they happened years ago.
“When professionals are treating women with depression or mental health issues, it’s best to be clued in to the fact that violence might be behind [it],” says Andrea Gielen, Sc.D., director for the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who was not involved in the study.