Domestic Abuse

If Hawaii were still a monarchy, its queen would be the 91-year-old descendant of some of Hawaii’s most revered native historical figures. Aside from being a living touchstone to history, the heir of much of the Campbell (of Campbell’s soup fame) estate, the owner of a vast personal fortune and a princess, she may also be the victim of domestic…

When domestic violence erupts, one wrong move can quickly make a bad situation worse. A woman in Honolulu is learning this the hard way after she was arrested following an incident of domestic violence with her significant other. In the heat of the fight, the woman turned what might have been a simple assault charge into a charge of unlawful…

Domestic violence can take a number of different forms — and while abusers seldom kill their own children, they will harm or threaten to harm a child as a way of abusing the mother. Sometimes, the child dies. That’s what experts believe happened in the case of a 7-year-old in Pauoa recently when his father, who was in a fierce…

When you think of domestic violence in Hawaii, the picture that pops into your head might be one of a husband battering a wife. Spouse abuse certainly is one way this crime manifests in our culture, but it is not that’s the only scenario to which the term can be applied. Abuse can take many forms, and by legal definition,…