As with everything else, until you have lived it, you have no idea what it's like. It would be interesting to hear what the children have to say.

They support they're mom 100%... The daughter is a newscaster down south. I have heard Cheryl wasn't the nicest human being in the world. But I also heard he had made threats to kill her and the kids if she left him. She probably did this as a protection measure in her mind..

Words alone, or not, they carry weight.

 

As to domestic abuse, I am glad that your department went out of its way. I find that, many times, officers are in a no-win situation. Without physical signs of abuse, it is always a "He said/She said." I can see why many would error on the side of caution in terms of enforcing anything. With it being that way, many times victims fear that they will get no protection until they are actually injured. It takes an INCREDIBLY strong man or woman to say to an officer near the presence of the abuser, "This guy is a piece of work. Take him in. This is what he just said, this is what he has done to put me in imminent fear for my well being."

 

Injury or not if a woman reports abuse the police have to document it and move it up the chain to "Social Services." In other words, once a woman reports abuse to a police officer it is documented. If nothing happens after that point it is NOT the fault of the police, it is the fault of the system.

Cheryl will be home for Christmas this year! :dancingpa

Cheryl will be home for Christmas this year! :dancingpa

 

It's probably in this thread but...who do her children live with?

It's probably in this thread but...who do her children live with?

 

I want to say they lived with Cheryl's parents but I'm not entirely sure. They have to be adults by now or at least the daughter is.

Injury or not if a woman reports abuse the police have to document it and move it up the chain to "Social Services." In other words, once a woman reports abuse to a police officer it is documented. If nothing happens after that point it is NOT the fault of the police, it is the fault of the system.

 

It is somewhere in the articles covering the murder about the procedure that was taken. Whether it was reported and put into the proper chain of command, I have no clue.

It is somewhere in the articles covering the murder about the procedure that was taken. Whether it was reported and put into the proper chain of command, I have no clue.

 

My comments were so that if we are playing the blame game we blame the right organization for the right reason. Or put another way, the Police have VERY STRICT reporting rules when it comes to abuse so if they dropped the ball it should be fairly easy to prove.

Pardoned by Beshear tonight. Horrible.

:dancingpa

I want to say they lived with Cheryl's parents but I'm not entirely sure. They have to be adults by now or at least the daughter is.

 

I believe the daughter lives in Chicago and is in radio sales. The son may also live with her, I know he did his final couple yrs in high school. She had a condo in NKY. Both are set financially from what I've heard.

Ft. Thomas killer Cheryl McCafferty pardoned

 

After years of near-misses with the parole board and attempts at getting a new trial, a Fort Thomas woman convicted of killing her husband was pardoned Monday by outgoing Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear.

 

In 2007, Cheryl McCafferty shot and killed her husband, Robert, while he slept. She claimed she was a victim of domestic violence and said that, hours before she killed him, she woke up to a gun brushing her mouth. The gun was in his hand. It was also the same gun she later used to fire the fatal bullet into his head.

 

Beshear issued 197 pardons and six commutations as his final executive action before leaving office. Among those, Beshear called special attention to 10 women who were "sentenced for violent crimes they committed after suffering years of domestic violence abuse at the hands of their eventual victims."

 

McCafferty, a mother of two, was named among this group.

 

“These 10 women – some of whom are currently incarcerated and some of whom have already been released from institutions – were recommended to me for consideration for full pardons after an extensive joint review by the Department for Public Advocacy and the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association,” Beshear said. “After further review of those files, I determined that some of the pardon requests should be granted, while others merited a commutation of sentence.”

 

The McCaffertys were an upwardly mobile family. She was an Enquirer advertising sales representative and he was a businessman. "They were fixtures in the community," Campbell County Commonwealth's Attorney Michelle Snodgrass, who prosecuted the case, has said.

 

The normally sedate suburb was shocked. It hadn't seen a homicide in two decades. To many residents, the McCaffertys seemed like the perfect family.

 

The day of the shooting, men in suits and ties ran down Madonna Place to find out if it was true – that their golfing buddy had died of a single gunshot to the head.

 

The narrow roadway was blocked by police cruisers and cars were left at the entrance to the street. The men were greeted by law enforcement officials and many exchanged bear hugs as they fought back tears.

 

McCafferty described years of abuse at the hands of her husband. She said chokings and beatings were underneath the happy facade of their family. Later at the trial, it was revealed that the night of the slaying McCafferty laid out what finally drove her to kill.

 

"He told me he wanted me to kill myself, and if I didn't, he was going to kill the kids," she said to a detective. "So I shot him."

 

It was the second time within 24 hours that police had been called to the family home.

 

Someone reported a domestic disturbance the day before the shooting, but a responding officer decided not to make an arrest or fill out a report after Cheryl McCafferty and her 12-year-old son met him on the sidewalk halfway down the street.

 

As the case crawled through the court the system, McCafferty's children stood by her. Her daughter, Molly, 17-years-old at the time, came to court clutching a stuffed bear and cloth doll to testify and blew a kiss to her mother from the witness stand.

 

Soon after the killing, Molly had made a post on MySpace directed at her father.

 

"Rest in the peace you never gave us," she wrote.

 

On March 9, 2009, a jury found Cheryl McCafferty guilty of first-degree manslaughter. A day later, McCafferty agreed to waive any appeals of her conviction in exchange for an 18-year sentence. And as part of a deal, Snodgrass and her team of prosecutors did not challenge a defense motion asking the presiding judge to rule that McCafferty was a victim of domestic violence.

 

Snodgrass said the family of Robert McCafferty went along with the deal for the McCafferty children. They'd been in the house when their mother shot their father. They said they didn't hear gunfire.

 

The family of Robert McCafferty has argued since the beginning that he was not an abuser.

 

After a 2011 hearing that resulted in McCafferty being denied parole, Snodgrass said the family was relieved she would remain in prison.

 

"Bob McCafferty's family in no way condones domestic violence, but throughout the course of the investigation there was no real evidence that she was in fact the victim of domestic violence," Snodgrass has said. "The only victim in this case was Robert McCafferty."

 

It's unclear when McCafferty or the others pardoned by Beshear would be released from prison.

She's out!

 

Pardoned killer Cheryl McCafferty officially released

Absolute slap in the face to the jury who convicted this murderer and Robert's family. Snodgrass reiterated that there was absolutely NO evidence of domestic violence during her trial and the jury didn't buy her story at all. Pure politics at work here. Beshear should be ashamed of making a mockery of our justice system.

Absolute slap in the face to the jury who convicted this murderer and Robert's family. Snodgrass reiterated that there was absolutely NO evidence of domestic violence during her trial and the jury didn't buy her story at all. Pure politics at work here. Beshear should be ashamed of making a mockery of our justice system.

 

I wonder what it was about this case that drew his attention.

If Snodgrass was so sure there was no evidence of domestic violence, why did she not challenge the motion asking the judge to rule that McCafferty was a domestic violence victim?