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Mom, 35, is beaten to death with a rock by the father of her two-year-old son on beach in Maine when he saw her make a hand gesture to another man
Officers detained Jeffrey Buchannan, 33, of Bedford, Massachusetts and found Rhonda Pattelena, 35, also of Bedford, dead behind a rock on Short Sands Beach
The state medical examiner s office on Saturday ruled Pattelena s death a homicide caused by blunt force injury to the head
Buchannan was charged with murder and is in custody at York County Jail
Pattelena had three children, with the two oldest being 17 and 14
She and Buchannan shared a two-year-old son together
• Links to York County domestic violence resources are available at caring-unlimited.org
But police officers say it’s not fair to question the split-second decisions that witnesses have to make while also considering their own safety. And advocates who work with domestic abuse survivors say that instead of questioning the response of people who witness a shocking domestic violence homicide, as was the case in York, communities should focus on recognizing and preventing domestic abuse.
“The conversation we really need to be having is about prevention. How do we intervene before it gets to that point?” said Regina Rooney, education and communications director for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence.
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