We were in the courtroom and I caught my client’s eyes. They filled with tears, and then she looked forward toward the judge and jury. She was a very small Ukrainian woman and very scared. She had been severely abused by an American man whom she met through a so-called mail-order bride agency with a “satisfaction guaranteed” policy. This meant that in an effort to “satisfy” him, the agency paired him with several foreign women in succession, even when they were well…

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