North Carolina doesn't offer protections for same-sex domestic violence victims

3:00am PST - February 6th, 2019    survivor 2019 - The Guardian (AU)

The state’s statute regarding domestic violence only applies to those whose abusers are ‘of the opposite sex’ When Sherry Honeycutt Everett was a litigator in North Carolina, she watched her clients’ faces change as she told them that the laws would protect t…