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NBC4: Senator Susan Rubio's Coercive Control Bill Could Have Prevented San Gabriel Valley Tragedy

August 30, 2020

It's been three years since 5-year-old Aramazd "Piqui" Andressian Jr. was murdered by his own father. The father ultimately confessed to killing the child because he was angry at his estranged wife.

The case made national headlines.

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Earlier this summer Estevez testified at a state senate hearing advocating for new proposed legislation that would expand the definition of domestic abuse to include "coercive control," emotional or psychologically abusive behavior.

"My goal is to ensure that victims are able to bring their stories of abuse, coercive control all together to courts and try to see if we can at least give victims a better chance of being successful in the court system," said State Sen. Susan Rubio, D-Baldwin Park, the bill's author and a domestic violence survivor.

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