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System for protecting abused suffers gaps

Many victims drop protection orders; more support needed, advocates say
SUNDAY
By CURTIS JOHNSON
The Herald-Dispatch
cujohnson@herald-dispatch.com
October 25, 2009 HUNTINGTON — It
wasn’t supposed to be like
this.
Samantha Farley hoped
for a relationship filled with
roses and love notes. Like
many women, hers also
turned out to include name
calling, threats, beatings and
weapons.
“When you’re a little girl,
you never really dream this
could really happen to you,”
she said.
The 25-year-old Cabell
County resident is one of
countless victims, many
women, who seek protection
from violence committed
On 4A:
n The psychological side to
domestic violence
n Gun laws, manpower compli-
cate level of protection
by a family member or sig-
nificant other. Many look for
security within the state’s
court system. Victims can
get an emergency restraining
order in the magistrate court
system, and the family court
system can grant a more per-
manent restraining order
for up to six months. Both
prohibit contact between the
abuser and the victim.
Some victim advocates
contend improvements are
needed to ensure the pro-
cess provides more security
and support than a piece of
paper. However, courthouse
records are filled with exam-
ples of women, like Farley,
who return to their abusers
and sidestep the protection
they seek.
The Cabell Circuit Clerk’s
Office compiled a report
Please see VIOLENCE/4A Farley

Substance
Marshall 27, UAB 7 abuse costs
A Halloween
tradition
Herd runs past UAB W.Va. health
system $116M
With 3,000 pump- By TOM BREEN
kins in his backyard The Associated Press
CHARLESTON — Whenever talk turns
and Halloween to controlling the ever-rising cost of health
just days away, Ric care, someone is bound to mention the
Griffith has been savings that could come from a reduction
in largely preventable ailments, like those
staying up as late as linked to obesity and smoking.
5 a.m. drawing hun- Less frequently discussed, though, are
dreds of pumpkin the preventable ailments stemming from
alcohol and drug abuse, which cost West
faces for the annual Virginia’s health care system roughly $116
Pumpkin House million in 2007, accord-
display in Kenova. ing to a new report. “If the state can
The report, com- be assertive
Community / 1C piled by the Prevention
Resource Center for about this (early
the Gov. Joe Manchin- intervention
Getting silly at appointed Partnership and prevention),
to Promote Community within less than
the symphony Well-Being, measured
costs to the health care
10 years, the
effort could pay
system from hospital
The Huntington visits to prescription for itself.”
Symphony Orches- drugs from 1999 to 2007,
Wayne
tra kicks off its and found the expense
Coombs
has steadily grown.
2009-2010 Win- By 2017, the report director for
ter Season with Chris Jackson/The Herald-Dispatch
estimates, the cost could research and
Fans celebrate as Marshall plays UAB on Saturday at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. For more photos, go to www.herald-dispatch.com.
a little help from be more than $201 mil- development at
lion, even as the num- the Prevention
the award-winning
North Carolina- For fans, the game’s only part of the fun ber of patients suffering
from alcohol and drug-
Resource Center

S
based Red Herring related diseases has held steady or even
ure, it’s about football. John Davis was up well before the declined slightly in the last decade.
Puppets tonight at Essentially, they got up MORE INSIDE: sun to get from his home in Mingo The only way to bring down those costs
the Keith-Albee. before dawn and drove n Couple gets engaged on 50-yard line, 5A County to the Edwards Stadium in the future, the report says, is to spend
Life / 1D from all over the state to n Anderson leads way to C-USA win, 1B parking lot early. He made sure to more money now — on early intervention,
watch the Herd take on n Chuck Landon grades the Herd, 3B get a few good hours of tailgating prevention, treatment and recovery.
the University of Alabama at Bir- n Anthony Hanshew awards game balls, in before the noon kickoff. “If the state can be assertive about this,

Help behind mingham on Saturday in downtown 3B

Huntington.
But it’s also about the smell of
n Penalty flags fly against UAB, 3B
When asked why he wanted to get
started so early, he looked perplexed.
“This is late. The game starts at
within less than 10 years, the effort could
pay for itself,” said Wayne Coombs, direc-
tor for research and development at the
the scenes bacon on the charcoal grill, and the
taste of hot coffee or cold beer on
n Marshall notebook, 3B
n Game stats, 4B
n Game in pictures, 4B and online
noon,” he said about 9:30 a.m., as he
worked his way through a barbecue
Prevention Resource Center.
Coombs wants the state to set aside
Bill Bailey, man- a crisp, fall morning, they said. It’s sandwich. “We always try to get about $23.5 million a year to fund a broad
ager of team sales about catching up with family and here before the team.” spectrum of programs designed to prevent
friends and anticipating what may go down on the field. It’s a tradition that he and some buddies have had for people from abusing drugs and alcohol
for Glenn’s Sport- Ultimately, the final score of the game — which Saturday over a decade. “We fix something different every game and help those currently in the grip of
ing Goods, stepped was a 27-7 victory for Marshall — is just a portion of a trip substance abuse get healthy. The state
up when a local that has many attractions for the Herd’s diehard tailgaters. Please see GAME/5A currently spends about $8 million on treat-
ment, although some federal money is used
team was in need.
Bailey ensured Story by Jean Tarbett Hardiman / The Herald-Dispatch for related expenses.

Please see COSTS/5A

each member of the
Tolsia football team

Obama declares swine flu Man charged with 20 counts wanton

was ready to play
after losing their

a national emergency endangerment “Weafter shots fired at police

equipment in a fire.
Business / 9A
approached the house, The Herald-Dispatch we got about six or eight feet from
Index President Barack Obama HUNTINGTON and as we got about six or him, he jumped up and ran back
declared the swine flu — A man has been in the house and almost instantly
Business 9A Local 3A outbreak a national eight feet from him, he jumped
Classified 1F 3D charged with 20 began shooting with a shotgun
Dear Abby 3D
Movies
Nation 11A
emergency, giving his counts of wanton
up and ran back in the house through the structure of the house
Editorials 6A Obituaries 2C health chief the power endangerment and almost instantly began and out the window,” Swope said.
Horoscope 5F People 12A to let hospitals move and four counts of shooting. ....” The officers ran for cover and
Jumble 2D Puzzle 2D emergency rooms attempting to com- called for backup, which arrived
Life 1D Sports 1B offsite to speed mit a felony after S.N. Swope within 10 minutes. The officers were
treatment and protect an incident where Perry W.Va. State Police trooper joined by six Cabell County Sheriff’s
© noninfected patients. officers were fired three Barboursville Police officers deputies and a Huntington Police
Champion Publishing, Inc. The declaration, on early Saturday morning. responded to a possible suicide call officer, Swope said. One of the depu-
www.herald-dispatch.com
signed Friday night and Adam Daniel Perry, 23, is charged in the 1300 block of East Campbell ties convinced the man to surrender
Huntington, West Virginia announced Saturday, with 20 counts of wanton endanger- Park Drive in Huntington about 2 a.m. and officers arrested him.
Vol. 109 No. 298 comes with the disease more prev- ment as well as four counts of attempt- Saturday. Swope said officers need to be
alent than ever in the country and produc- ing to commit a felony, according to As officers approached the scene, prepared for incidents in which
tion delays undercutting the government’s West Virginia State Police Trooper the door to the home was open and they are put into the line of fire.
initial, optimistic estimates that as many as S.N. Swope. Perry is housed at the officers called to the man inside to “It could happen at any time; it’s
120 million doses of the vaccine could be Western Regional Jail in Barboursville come out, Swope said. The man came just something you have to be aware
available by mid-October. and was to be arraigned Saturday in out and laid down on the front porch of,” he said.
More on 11A Cabell County Magistrate Court. with his hands behind his head. Bail information was not immedi-
The arrest came after Swope and “We approached the house, and as ately available on Saturday.
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