Wyatt, it's not that simple. Abuse is a very broad term, it can be verbal, psychical, or emotional. If someone calls the cops or wants to put someone in jail they can use any of the above terms to build a case against another person they reside with. Once the accusation is made, the damage is done. It is then up to the accused to prove their innocence, which is hard, because people associate someone charged with DV as a wife beater already and assume guilt like as in this Iditarod case. The mere assumption is enough to ruin someone's life.

Traditionally, we associate domestic abusers with someone that beats their wife, and we get all of these awful images associated with the thought, but we don't know the real story. We don't know how the girl treated him, if she hit him and abused him, and he stayed in the relationship until he just snapped and wanted her gone. I'm not blaming the victim, I want to know the whole story about this relationship before casting judgement on him.