一名加利福尼亚男子于2021年被判无期徒刑,不得假释,因为他在遭受多年虐待后,于2011年谋杀了他的妻子,即两个孩子的母亲。 A California man was sentenced to life without parole in 2021 for murdering his wife, a mother of two, in 2011 after years of abuse.

2011年12月,来自加利福尼亚州阿纳海姆的26岁母亲Zaell Preston在遭受多年家庭虐待之后,在圣诞节前夕被丈夫William Wallace谋杀。 In December 2011, Za’Zell Preston, a 26-year-old mother from Anaheim, California, was murdered by her husband, William Wallace, on Christmas Eve after years of domestic abuse. 尽管Preston先前曾被定罪、发出限制令和一再实施暴力,但他在2008年获释后仍返回Wallace。 Despite prior convictions, restraining orders, and repeated violence, Preston had returned to Wallace after his 2008 prison release. 华莱士在邻居党后的一次暴力攻击中致命地打中了她,然后把她的尸体摆在沙发上,告诉他们的孩子她喝醉了,并鼓励他们在她尸体旁边打开礼物,记录现场。 During a violent attack following a neighbor’s party, Wallace fatally struck her, then staged her body on a sofa, told their children she was drunk, and encouraged them to open presents beside her corpse—recording the scene. Wallace被捕,经过9年的法律程序,他于2021年被判犯有二级谋杀罪,并被判处不得假释的无期徒刑。 Wallace was arrested, and after a nine-year legal process, he was convicted of second-degree murder in 2021 and sentenced to life without parole. 该案强调了周期性家庭暴力的危险以及对儿童造成的持久创伤。 The case underscored the dangers of cyclical domestic violence and the lasting trauma inflicted on children.