Domestic abuse advocates are outraged after a woman has come forward to claim that she was wrongfully terminated from her teaching position at Holy Trinity School in El Cajon, Calif. The reason she was fired? She was being beaten by her husband.

"Basically, we'd had a very bad weekend with him," Carie Charlesworth recalled. "We'd called the Sheriff's Department three times on [that] Sunday."

Charlesworth alerted her principal of the issues she was having with her husband in January, and asked that they be on the lookout and police be called should he come around the school. Sure enough, he did, and was promptly arrested on two felony counts. The school leapt into action.

"At this time, Mrs. Charlesworth and her children are on an indefinite leave of absence," Francie Wright, Holy Trinity's principal, wrote in a letter to parents on Jan. 29. "We request that you keep them in your prayers."

That would have been an understandable move to allow all parties to calm down and await the outcome of Charlesworth's husband's sentencing. Once that time passed, however, Holy Trinity might have been praying for the abused teacher, but they had also decided that they were not going to help her either.

"In the interest of the safety of the students, faculty and parents at Holy Trinity School, we simply cannot allow you to return to work there or, unfortunately, at any other school in the Diocese," the April termination letter read.

The move shocked Charlesworth to such an extent that she has since claimed she is having a crisis of faith about her religion. In an effort to provide, for her kids, she is now suing the diocese for what she believes to be a case of wrongful termination, noting that actions like their's are the reason why many battered women do not come forward about their situation.

"That's why women who are victims of domestic violence don't come forward," a teary Charlesworth told KNSD-TV. "Because they are afraid of the way people are going to see them, view them, perceive them, treat them."

Charlesworth still has plenty to deal with outside of the lawsuit. She is now a single mother of four who must deal with the scars of domestic abuse. She must also soon deal with her ex-husband, who gets out of jail Jun. 28.