She did not know how to move forward with the case. Despite having evidence from six medical examinations, nothing changed. Shermatova repeatedly contacted local law enforcement about the abuse. He also did nothing to protect his family from his father’s violence. She would steal corn from a neighbour's farm to feed the family, as her husband had stopped supporting them. She had no money, no education and she could not leave her young children alone and go out to work. “Now, he periodically beats his second wife." "I knew that my father-in-law used to treat his first wife in the same way, driving her to a deep mental breakdown,” shares Ms.
Whenever their grandfather was around, the children shuddered, thinking that he might hurt their mother again. Shermatova and her children lived in fear of constant abuse. When she refused to leave, her father-in-law began physically abusing her and regularly beat her in front of the children. Her husband stopped coming home and her father-in-law started claiming the house as his own, attempting to kick Ms. In addition, she provided her father-in-law with money almost daily, whenever he would ask for it. The family lived in the semi-finished home together. She used the last of her savings to put a roof on the house, install windows and doors, and to paint the rooms. Shermatova and her husband returned to Tajikistan. It wasn’t long before they were married, and he persuaded her to send all the money she earned to her father-in-law in Tajikistan, who was to use the funds to build a house for them. Shermatova met her husband while she was working abroad as a cleaner in Moscow, Russia. Like many women in Tajikistan, Shermatova Marjona has experienced gender-based violence.
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