The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or (often pejoratively) molester. Physical abuse may involve more than one abuser, and more than one victim. The cure for the victim is to separate the child completely from the abuser. She soon learns that Villeridge is emotionally an abuser. The prosecutor also claimed that Willingham was a serial wife abuser, both physically and emotionally. Her suppressed anger drove her to kill her abuser husband. He receives a phone call from a child abuser who calls himself "Joker". It has since emerged that Smith was a serial child abuser. He was not an abuser of alcohol or other drugs. This can lead victims to return to the abuser. They categorically denied that John Ramsey was, or ever had been, a child abuser. It is an exploitation of power where the guardian becomes an abuser. William J. Bell created Victor as a "despicable, contemptible, unfaithful wife abuser". The abuser exhibits hypersensitive and reactive jealousy. She did not identify her abuser.