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Personal Injury & Torts

Oct. 26, 1999

Pivotal Issue: Not Death but Dismembering

VENTURA - After 15 years of physical and emotional abuse, it was one final rape that Gladis Barreras Soto claims prompted her to kill her husband.

By Matthew Heller
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        VENTURA - After 15 years of physical and emotional abuse, it was one final rape that Gladis Barreras Soto claims prompted her to kill her husband.
        As Pedro Barragan Alba slept in their Ventura apartment early on the morning of Feb. 21, Soto placed t...

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