Barbara Bartolome was a young mother when she realized the man she married was not the same man she had dated. What she thought was a normal relationship turned violent, and having a young 1-month-old daughter and 5-year-old son, their safety was on the top of her mind. Her husband repeatedly rejected her help, and eventually Bartolome knew she had to leave her marriage, but was plagued with fear. Her then-husband had taken out a life insurance policy on her, and she felt her very life would be in danger if he found out she was trying to take her children and leave him.
Her concern for her children’s safety was so strong that even in her moment of death due to medical error, she pled to go back to them.
