While Ms. Mills has gotten four orders of protection against Mr. Rousseau, each time they expired she had to reapply.
Although five orders of protection against her husband, Eddy Udoh, were issued, the court refrained from making him leave home, as Mrs. Udoh had requested.
One of the defendants, who had prior drug and robbery convictions, was convicted of threatening a companion in violation of four orders of protection.
In 2006, Mr. Chen spent 30 days in jail for choking her and punching her in the face, and since then Ms. Wu had received at least five orders of protection against him.
Since then, Mrs. Slade had obtained two temporary orders of protection against him.
Mr. Conrow also pointed out that there were two active orders of protection against Mr. Holisky.
The family had a history of domestic violence: Mr. Farmer's wife had been granted three temporary orders of protection against Mr. Farmer since August, and there were 23 reports of domestic violence incidents involving the family, the police said.
One bullet point in 2011 noted a startling statistic: there were 1.8 million current and expired orders of protection on file in a police database (20,000 new ones are entered each month).
It is not entirely clear whether Mr. Holisky, who did not respond to several requests for comment, is legally able to buy a gun at this point, because at least one of the outstanding orders of protection, which expires next year, appears to trip another federal prohibition.
