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Mary Jean Pearl and John Bataglia's marriage seemed picture-perfect from the outside.

With their two young daughters' faith and liberty, they made their home in a wealthy Dallas suburb.

John was handsome, charming and successful, but behind the mask and normality lay a vicious, violent abuser

who'd brutally beaten his first wife and who made Mary Jean the new target of his irrational rages.

After nine hellish years, she divorced Bataglia.

But on Christmas Day, 1999, during a court-ordered family visit,

he attacked her in front of their daughters.

For the next two years, he threatened, harassed, and stalked her.

Mary Jean feared for her life, but not for the lives of the children,

which whom Bataglia was never anything less than caring, loving, and gentle.

But in spring 2001, when faith and liberty were visiting their father,

Mary Jean received the message to call her daughters.

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