30.May.2010 Civil Court Remedies for Intimate Partner Violence
The concept of suing your abuser through a tort claim is gaining ground (if you can keep it from getting consolidated with your family law case), and in some cases I feel it’s worth looking into. (We all know where protective orders get you….and the same with child custody…it is virtually handing custody over to [...]
22.Mar.2010 Tonight on ABC’s Nightline: When Restraining Orders Cannot Stop a Killer
Please make sure and watch this tonight. For more information about Vernetta’s story, visit Anne Caroline Drake’s blog here. Vernetta Cockerham Vernetta’s story will be featured on Nightline on tonight (Monday) March 22nd at 11:35 EDT: “When Restraining Orders Cannot Stop a Killer.” One of the issues the piece addresses is the effectiveness of GPS [...]
18.Mar.2010 Maryland’s Crooked Judges: They Have Their Share
Here’s a good candidate for the Maryland House Judiciary Committee. He’d fit right in with most them… From ABC News: Baltimore Judge Marries Accused Abuser to Victim During Trial to Avoid Testimony Judge Darrell Russell Offered to Pause a Domestic Violence Trial for a Marriage Ceremony A Baltimore County judge has been reassigned after pausing [...]
14.Mar.2010 The Search for Common Sense Continues in the Maryland House Judiciary Committee
From The Washington Post: Maryland’s roadblock to helping victims of abuse By Eileen King Silver Spring Sunday, March 14, 2010; C05 The Maryland House Judiciary Committee has a reputation for being not only a place where good bills go to die but also where witnesses can expect little sympathy for having suffered from violent or [...]
09.Mar.2010 Maryland H.B. 700 is Killed in Judiciary Committee: Remember Them in November
From The Washington Post: AS EXPECTED, the Maryland House Judiciary Committee wrongly killed a bill on Thursday that would have made it easier for victims of domestic violence to obtain protective orders. H.B. 700 would have brought Maryland into conformance with the practices of every other state in the country. As an election-year service to [...]
05.Mar.2010 Development and Validation of a Coercive Control Measure for Intimate Partner Violence: Final Technical Report
An extensive report (over 500 pages) prepared for the US Department of Justice, written by Mary Ann Dutton, Lisa Goodman, and R. James Schmidt. Download the entire report here. Here is the beginning of the Executive Summary: For decades now, battered women’s advocates have placed the notion of coercive control squarely at the center of [...]
04.Mar.2010 Attention Maryland Legislature: Someone Needs to Get Laid
Hey, Luiz Simmons, John Edwards called….he wants his hair back! The dialog is continuing on the shameful treatment of Amy Castillo during testimony with the Maryland House Judiciary Committee, in particular by batterer-lover Delegate Luiz Simmons. Maybe it has been a while since Delegate Simmons has been laid, because he seems pretty preoccupied by it. [...]
16.Oct.2009 New 2009 StatCan Family Violence Report: Women and Children are the Big Losers at the Hands of Husbands and Fathers
Study well Barbara Kay, Mike Murphy and Arun Sehgal…this is from your government and matches pretty well with United States and Australian data. Nothing here in this report or on this site denies that domestic violence happens to men also, but women and children are far more impacted. Wake up to the reality of it…instead [...]
