ALFREDO SALVATERRO v. ISELA RAMIREZ

The stay order being entered in this case is quite alarming. Its immediate result is that a victim of sexual violence and her children must flee their home out of fear for her safety, so that her abuser can stay in the neighboring apartment where he assaulted her. Or, as appellant would have it, the terrorized victim in this case is free to remain in her apartment — a home she and her children cannot enter or leave without passing within a few feet of her assailant’s door in an interior hallway out of public view — and go on living in fear that she may be attacked again. Either way, contrary…