Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
#DomesticViolence: John Wrighty - Your Story…..Told!
Our ongoing battle to be heard
by Nick (03/06/2012)My story goes back to 2009. I came home to find my home empty. No idea where my partner and my babies had gone. My partner was violent, abusive, dishonest and I feared for my children. Over the next few days it became apparent she had been having an affair for the last year. She had been arrested for GBH and I had to drop the charges when her eldest daughter threatened me that I would never see my children again unless I did. They never followed up why. Months of verbal abuse, and threats and then she went. Four months later I finally get to see them. She had found her way to a refuge where she had said I was a terrible person. The refuge was just around the corner from her lover’s home. I found texts from her to him saying how she was “going to start an argument lol” and how she planned to say this and that and how she would get given a place and then he could move in. She contacted me just before the court case and told me where she was....read more
http://www.abusedtotheaccused.co.uk/your-story-told/
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
#DomesticViolence: For The Native American Woman Sexual Assault Is The 'Norm'
The official number is bad enough: One in three American Indian women have experienced rape or attempted rape, a rate more than twice the national average. But it gets worse: One survey finds that in some rural villages, the rate of sexual violence is as much as 12 times the national rate, and interviews by the New York Times found that sexual assault is so common that few, if any, Native American women living on tribal reservations escape it.
The Times article relays wrenching stories (the 19-year-old rape victim who never received a return phone call from tribal police), offers more heartbreaking statistics (just 10% of sex assaults on reservations are reported, and arrests are made in just 13% of those cases), and details the myriad problems contributing to the tragic situation: isolated villages; alcohol abuse and a breakdown of the family structure; a lack of sexual assault training.
And the issue is now causing contention in Washington, as Republicans and Democrats wrestle over reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act: The Senate wants to give tribal courts more power to prosecute non-Indians in sex assaults, but some Republicans disagree. newser.com
One in three American Indian women (34.1percent) experience rape in their lifetime as compared with 18 percent of white women and 19 percent of African American women. This may have something to do with the fact that Tribal Law Enforcement cannot arrest non-natives for crimes committed on reservations, or with high rates of alcohol use, or maybe a combination of these factors. healthline.com
The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center reports that 44% of IHS hospitals do not have SANE-trained personnel, and in some places, there is only a medical professional available once a week. In addition, there is no support for the lifelong process required to recover from a sexual assault, which happens most often to young women. Community-based organizations, like the Rape Abuse & Incest national Network, can fill the gap for support, but once the forensic evidence is lost, it is too late for any chance of prosecution, leaving rapists at large. healthline.com
Interviews with Native American women in Emmonak and across the nation's tribal reservations suggest few, if any female relatives or close friends have escaped sexual violence. NY Times
No place, women's advocates say, is more dangerous than Alaska's isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service. NY Times
In the Navajo Nation, which encompasses parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, 329 rape cases were reported in 2007 among a population of about 180,000. Five years later, there have been only 17 arrests. Women's advocates on the reservation say only about 10 percent of sexual assaults are reported. NY Times
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http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/242776.html
Saturday, May 19, 2012
#DomesticViolence: Drew Peterson - When Domestic Violence Becomes A Murder Case.
Drew Peterson was a police officer for 29 years, he is now up on a murder charge for the murder of his missing wife Stacy.
For those interested I will be covering the case at this link. Trial date set for jury selection July 23rd.
http://chandralevymystery.blogspot.com.es/
Interview with Tom Peterson the son of Drew. Tom talks about his dad now in prison charged with murder for the second time. It is hard sometimes to remember that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
For those interested I will be covering the case at this link. Trial date set for jury selection July 23rd.
http://chandralevymystery.blogspot.com.es/
Interview with Tom Peterson the son of Drew. Tom talks about his dad now in prison charged with murder for the second time. It is hard sometimes to remember that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Mary Kennedy :RFK Jr.'s estranged wife found dead at 52
Police called to family home in New York
(Radar Online) Police are currently at the home of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in New York after his wife Mary Kennedy was found dead Wednesday, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
The source says Mary committed suicide, but RadarOnline.com has yet to confirm that information and police have yet to make an official statement.
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