PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Florida House Rep. Robin Bartleman held a news conference on Monday in Pembroke Pines to discuss a state bill that aims to expand protections for domestic violence victims.
The failings before the murders in Tamarac of Mary Gingles, a 34-year-old domestic violence victim; her father, David Ponzer, 64; and Andrew Ferrin, 36, a neighbor who tried to help, were at the heart of the bill.
“Mary did everything right. She filed all the right motions. We got all the right orders, and in the end — it didn’t matter,” Attorney Kelley Joseph said about the triple murder that Gingles’s daughter witnessed on Feb. 16 in Tamarac…