1.   But Swerling said she killed in self-defense, insisting that her mother had verbally abused her on the evening of the murder.

2.   Fifteen mothers were abusing drugs or alcohol when their child was killed.

3.   He said his mother also physically abused him.

4.   Her mother abused her.

5.   Her mother also sexually abuses her.

6.   Letter asserts that her mother abuses Elisa.

7.   Or that a child whose mother abused and abandoned him, who was shuttled through foster homes, will graduate in May from Lehigh with a degree in psychology?

8.   She was raised on welfare and has seen how her own mother has abused it, she said.

9.   The judge said there were also reports that the mother had physically abused one of her children.

10.   The records also indicate that his mother had abused drugs throughout her pregnancy and had syphilis.