1.   He used to come home drunk and beat my mother.

2.   No wonder I can cope with the pattern which beat your mother.

3.   Asked how she would some day explain to Sean why she beat his mother for the national championship, she smiled.

4.   After her parents divorced, her mother was badly beaten by a boyfriend wielding a knife who attacked her at a bus stop.

5.   Aichana Mint Abeid Bolil recalls watching her master beat her mother senseless if the couscous was overcooked or the tea too bitter.

6.   Almost by accident, Rodriguez has gone from a homeless teen who watched her father beat her mother to a voice for the young and homeless.

7.   But there was also a deep fear that one day his mother would be beaten as she made her way home to the tough ghettoes where they lived.

8.   Everett Copeland, the oldest son, will say in an affidavit that he saw his father beat his mother, her lawyer predicts.

9.   Her mother was beaten to death.

10.   His father was a carpenter who drank and beat his mother.