That cannot be true unless she saw absolutely no other way like he was a powerful and well-known figure in the community and she literally had nowhere to go to, no family, no friends and not one social service or public service that she was aware of.

As I stated before, you need to take psychology of the people in the consideration. Cutting one's bounds to family is the first thing an abuser does, before he becomes more violent. You forget the psychology. Lawbooks is not how minds of people work. It is how we should judge in case the person was completely alright when comitting a crime.