Thank God the president pardoned her. She is a hero. For 47 years her husband abused her, abused her daughters by constantly raping them, then healso abused their only son. Then the day her son committed suicide due to whathe has suffered from the hands of his father, she decided it was enough and shothim there times. Only a coward mom won’t shoot him dead. God bless thepresident. So annoying.
French President Francois Hollande on Sunday pardoned awoman who was jailed for 10 years for killing her husband after he abused herfor decades, the president’s office announced yesterday.
“In the face of an exceptional human situation, thepresident wanted to make it possible for (Jacqueline) Sauvage to return to herfamily as soon as possible,” the presidency said in a statement.
The rare pardon granted by Hollande amounts to a reductionof Sauvage's sentence that will allow the 68-year-old to leave prison inmid-April, her lawyers told AFP. By then, she will have spent more than threeyears behind bars.
Sauvage's case had become a cause celebre in France, withmore than 400,000 people signing a petition demanding her release.
"I'm overwhelmed, happy, grateful, relieved," saidEva Darlan, founder of an advocacy group for Sauvage.
Hollande had met with Sauvage's daughters and lawyers for thefirst time on Friday.
Sauvage was married for 47 years to Norbert Marot, a violentalcoholic who she said raped and beat her and her three daughters and alsoabused her son.
On September 10, 2012, the day after her son hanged himself,Sauvage shot her husband three times in the back with a rifle. She was foundguilty of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison in October 2014, which wasupheld on appeal in December 2015 as the state rejected her plea ofself-defence.
The group Osez le Feminisme (Dare To Be Feminist) called forthe definition of self-defence to be expanded in cases of "female victimsof violence".
Her case has cast a spotlight on the tricky and controversiallegal argument known as "battered woman syndrome".
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