When Scioto County deputies got the call, the scene sounded dire: “A man is holding a woman down on the ground at the corner of Washington and 10th.” For dispatchers and officers, that description often means one thing—domestic violence. But when deputies arrived in West Portsmouth, the truth turned out to be far more complicated. […]
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