This story made me very sad for reasons beyond what Ewing did. If he had been married to the woman and had tortured her continually for years or decades, he likely would have spent the night in jail. He may have even ultimately won custody of their children. The protection order would have meant very little, as he would have charmed the people around him and stalked his victim strategically. In any effort by the victim to obtain a divorce, she would have been treated like the criminal. The decades of torment would have been treated as a public irritant and the victim, in trying to escape, would be in the greatest danger of murder at that point. Rich, poor, professional, or otherwise, it goes thus.