Finding A Husband: Mexico City

Paola Dept: The first time he punched her, he apologized, she says, according to Montreal Gazette. Once married, the abuse intensified, but the apologies stopped and paola Ortiz says her husband was nice to her when they first met in her hometown of Coacalco, near Mexico City. A police officer with Mexico's federal force, he treated her well, she says, and even gave her a necklace. She was 24. Ortiz was used to being abused - her mother beat her before kicking her out of the house when she was 18. As a woman living on her own, she was followed home and harassed by men, including her mother's ex-boyfriend, because people assumed she was worthless or a whore. Finding a husband seemed a godsend. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.