Lynn Giovanni, 45, apparently had a very unhappy divorce and an even unhappier experience with the legal system. In 2004, using the pseudonym Faith Hope, she wrote a self-published book, Comprehensive Study of Judicial System Loopholes in Relation to Domestic Violence: The Victim’s/Child’s and Society’s Nightmare . . . from a Victim’s Perspective.
The book apparently slams the legal system for failing the victims of domestic violence.
Giovanni apparently didn’t take the message in her own book to heart. In early February, she took a hammer and a shovel, and walked into the room of her 14-year-old daughter, Nicole. While Nicole slept, Giovanni hit her skull several times with the hammer and then once with the shovel for good measure.
Giovanni then fled the scene and attempted to commit suicide with her vehicle, but survived crashing her car into a guard rail near a high exit.
Giovanni is now charged with murder, and hopefully will get a firsthand look at how the courts should handle domestic violence.
Source:
Slain by Mom. Perry Chiarmonte and Leonard Greene, New York Post, February 8, 2005.