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Tainted Love: The True Story of Domestic Violence and the Bornhoeft Murder Trial
Candy Johnson got more than she bargained for when she married Jeffrey Bornhoeft. During the course of their rocky marriage he abused and neglected her and their three children. After ten long years she finally found the courage to leave him and finalize a divorce. She found a new love, Jamey Johnson. They began to forge a life together, despite Bornhoeft's continued protestations and demands that Candy return to him. His final act of violence turned Ohio upside down in April, 2000. This is the thrilling true story of one woman's escape from domestic violence and her courage to give her children the life they deserve. Candy's story highlights an all too common situation in America today. Many women face the terrors of domestic violence, and each of them has the strength to end it. Candy Johnson's tale is proof that it can be done, no matter how violent the abuser.
376 pages, Paperback
First published October 17, 2003
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April 14, 2008
Tainted Love: The True Story of Domestic Violence and the Bornhoeft Murder Trial details the life of Shawn "Candy" Bornhoeft/Johnson. After being pregnant at age seventeen, Candy married her baby's father. Despite that she didn't want to get married, and had a nagging feeling that something was amiss, Candy wanted to do the "right" thing. Throughout the next decade, Candy would fight that nagging feeling while she tried to make an unhappy dysfunctional marriage work. In the end, Candy would rue the day she said "I do".
Tainted Love: The True Story of Domestic Violence and the Bornhoeft Murder Trial is an emotionally filled book in which the author tells her story about her first marriage and the dramatic events that unfolded after her subsequent divorce. The author also describes many of the clues leading up to this event that she should have noticed. She also shares her dismay with the American justice system in what she describes as a system in which the guilty are protected and the victims further victimized.
Tainted Love: The True Story of Domestic Violence and the Bornhoeft Murder Trial is an emotionally filled book in which the author tells her story about her first marriage and the dramatic events that unfolded after her subsequent divorce. The author also describes many of the clues leading up to this event that she should have noticed. She also shares her dismay with the American justice system in what she describes as a system in which the guilty are protected and the victims further victimized.
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