Domestic Violence, Mental Harassment, Infedility, Emotional and Psychological Abuse, Mental trauma
Hello
I have been married into a joint family for 5 years. After marriage, I moved to the USA since my husband works there. Since the beginning of the marriage, my husband has been disinterested in me, was mercilessly violent, aggressive, verbally and physically abusive on a regular basis. He used to clench his teeth, fists and used to slap, punch and kick me and hold me by the neck whenever I questioned about his disinterest in me and interest in other women. In the due course of our marriage, I found out that he has been on multiple dating websites and apps, was a regular visitor to cabarets, nude strips clubs, and prostitution centers. I was treated as a servant maid and was made to do all the works by his family members as I was the daughter-in-law and according to them, it was my duty to tend to their demands. I was always threatened by them to leave the house. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law and all of his other family members knew about his misdeeds since beginning yet they always supported him blindly and used to ask me to calm down. My sister-in-law also used to torture me and harass me on a regular basis. This is just a small gist I am mentioning here instead of whole 5 years ordeal. After not being able to take it anymore I came back to India and filed an FIR here at the local police station. But he was let off easily and the police did not take my cries seriously saying that the case is not strong enough and such domestic cases come to them on a daily basis and I should not be bothered about such small silly things so much. I filed for a divorce too. How can I get a legal respite and justice for the abuse, cruelty, trauma, insults, humiliation that I underwent all these years? Does the law allow such men and families to walk away freely ruining a girl's life without any punishment?