12. Gail Bennett

Raised on a Texas farm, a young woman spent her childhood taking care of her siblings. When she left home, she began a string of bad marriages and by 1990, she was filing for her third divorce. With one daughter grown, and a son living with her second ex-husband, she was at a crossroads in her life. That's when ex-husband number three convinced her to come back to him. She was a battered hhousewife and eventually she shot and wounded her violent spouse. Instead of protecting her, the local sheriff raped her. Then, she filed a civil suit to fight for justice.