Battered Women's Syndrome: The Burning Bed
After reading the Leidholm and Norman cases and watching The Burning Bed, I believe that Battered Women’s Syndrome should be a valid defense to murder. So many women all across the world these days get not only physically, verbally but mentally abused by their spouses. In the case of Janice Leidholm after being abused by her husband for years one argument and attack before bed was her breaking point. She stabbed her husband in his sleep. When a man abuses a women it does not just cause physical damage, it effects the women as a whole. Mentally it makes the women feel hopeless and scared. Not wanting to tell anyone, women tend to keep it all to themselves because a lot of times they are abused because their spouses fill their ears with comments