(WFAA) In a Dallas County courtroom, Patricia Owens saw her former husband and the father of their children for the first time in 14 years.
The last time she was [with] him was the night Yaser Said allegedly killed their two teenage daughters — Amina and Sarah — for dating American boys.
Speaking haltingly and softly at times, Owens told jurors about the controlling and abusive man she married at 15 after dating for only three weeks, how she had three children in quick succession and how she repeatedly left only to return out of fear.
Said didn’t work much and when he did, he drove a taxi, she said. She worked retail jobs and he took what money she earned that didn’t go for bills.
