Do it For the Children, Stolen With a Lie
Dear Friends,
One in
six Americans know someone who has been falsely accused of domestic violence.
The silver bullet in divorce, false allegations are
sometimes used to obtain child custody. This despicable act removes fit and
loving parents from the lives of their children.
Please take a moment, as soon as possible, and
speak out for the millions of children who are missing a falsely accused
parent. And do it for the parents who are grieving for their children, stolen
with a lie.
Find your senators here:
Take note
of their party affiliation and phone number.
If your
senator is a Republican, call, and ask them to support Sen. Grassley's
Substitute Amendment to VAWA.
If your
senator is a Democrat, call, and ask them to demand changes to Sen. Leahy's
VAWA (S. 1925), to curb false allegations of domestic violence.
Thank you
for taking a stand for affected families everywhere.
We have only heard half the story about domestic violence and that half is the female victims and male perpetrators. But there is another side to this story. The male victims and female perpetrators. Somehow that side of the story simply doesn't get told. This short video touches on these issues and opens up the reality of the male side of domestic violence.
RESOURCES
FROM THE VIDEO
NISVS - http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/NISVS/
Murray Straus article - http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V71-Straus_Thirty-Years-Denying-Evidence-PV_10.pdf
NCADV Fact Sheet -http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet(National).pdf
original research showing 1.3 million female victims and 834,732 males -https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/181867.pdf
Denise Hines - http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhines/
Hines - Male Helpseeking -http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhines/Douglas%20%20Hines%202011%20helpseeking%
RESOURCES
FROM THE VIDEO
NISVS - http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/NISVS/
Murray Straus article - http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V71-Straus_Thirty-Years-Denying-Evidence-PV_10.pdf
NCADV Fact Sheet -http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet(National).pdf
original research showing 1.3 million female victims and 834,732 males -https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/181867.pdf
Denise Hines - http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhines/
Hines - Male Helpseeking -http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhines/Douglas%20%20Hines%202011%20helpseeking%
CASE BEGINS WITH THIS 1ST HEARING
Honorable Judge Don S. Cohn’s Order of Dismissal Case No. 08-025399 – NO JUST CAUSE: Upon review, the evidence presented is insufficient under Florida Law (s. 741.30 or 784.046, FS) to allow the Court to issue an injunction for protection against domestic violence Ordered and Adjudged on October 27, 2008. Petitioner/Natural Father’s filed Response to Petition and Motion to Dissolve Temporary Injunction on October 27, 2008 attached.
Honorable Judge Cohn did not address time sharing for father and daughter leaving father in indeterminate state and fearful of further false allegations from mother.
Natural Father's Lawyer, Beatrice Cera, files Petition for Paternity 12/4/08. Beatrice Cera, in an Emergency Hearing on 12/16/08, obtains Order for (1) Jurisdictional Restriction / Removal of Child from Miami-Dade County, FL. (2) DNA Test (paid by Father) from Honorable Judge Scott Bernstein.
12/18/08 7pm, Mother obtains Information Only Police Report at the Miami-Dade Police Town of Miami Lakes Station. Mother's Lawyer Colleen Huott, sends (via email) Father letter on 12/24/08 alleging a traffic/domestic violence incident on 12/17/08 at 5pm. Father contacts the Police 12/26/08 and discovers the (False) Police Report, asked Police why he wasn't contacted, asked Police why it wasn't "promptly investigated, informs the Police that the Police Report is false, and files a police report against the "alleged" false Police Report.
2/8/09 9am, Courtroom of Honorable Judge Maria Espinoza Dennis, Paternity Case Presiding Judge. Judge Orders Mom and Dad to Co-parenting, Orders Mom and Dad to Alienation Intervention, Orders Mom and Dad to Parenting Classes. Orders Dad to Psychological Evaluation.
2/18/09, Mother files for Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence...USING THE POLICE REPORT SHE OBTAINED ON 12/17/08 and Interferes (basically halts) Honorable Judge Dennis' Order as Family Court Services cannot coordinate Co-Parenting, Alienation Intervention, and Parenting Classes.
Simple Paternity Case!!! Over 500 docket entries. My Daughter is innocent bystander. The Case goes on .......................................................
Greetings SAVE,
ReplyDeleteI am Gordon Smith, the Delaware DVLP Coordinator. Delaware - the home of VP Biden and his son Delaware Attorney General Joseph "Beau" Biden.
This is a very strategic state, needless to say. A splash here in this small pond could very well be felt in the Whitehouse.
I have both a request from of you and an idea:
Request:
SB 209 is essentially a bill that seeks to make it a felony offense to provide false information to a police officer. I have included the Media Release below for your perusal if you wish.
This could be a strategic time to introduce the states unequitable approach to false allegations compared to there response to other fraudulent crimes.
In a publically documented Family Law Commission meeting two legislators brought up false allegations of domestic abuse for purposes of obtaining a Protection From Abuse order.
Delaware Family Court Judge William Walls stated - "There are penalties against false swearing, they are not being enforced, I don't know why."
I ask that those who will call and or email the following individuals regarding Senate Bill 209 and express your concern that
1) According to Judge William Walls - that the laws regarding False Swearings of domestic violence are not being enforced.
2)It is a fact that false allegations/swearings destroy innocent lives. Ask that SB 209 include language that would reflect the need to deter this from happening.
3) Be pithy and polite :)
Idea: SAVE Solidarity
Lets begin to do this as an organized - disclipined SAVE Team strategy. DVLP Coordinators from each state inform the rest of us regarding pertinent legislation,key individuals,etc. and provide certain talking points and voile' it is no longer the same "lone voice crying in the wilderness" that the politicians have grown accustomed to on the state level but an entire civil rights movement that is watching what goes on in there state. We would keep track who and when the contacts are made and the response.
Please contact me with thoughts or feedback,
Gordon Smith
706-483-9358
Media Release
DeleteApril 26, 2012
Attorney General Biden, Legislators Propose
Targeting False Statements to Law Enforcement Officers
Bipartisan group of former police officers sponsor legislation
Dover – Attorney General Beau Biden and a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced legislation today that will create a felony offense of providing false information to law enforcement officers.
Senate Bill 209, which is sponsored by Sen. Bruce Ennis, Rep. Larry Mitchell, Sen. David Lawson and Rep. Biff Lee, was introduced yesterday. Individuals who purposefully provide false information to police investigating a crime would be guilty of a Class G felony under the legislation and face the penalty of up to two years in jail. .
The federal government and other states have laws that punish those who lie to police officers. This legislation adds to Delaware’s existing false reporting law by making it a crime to knowingly provide a false statement to law-enforcement in order to prevent, hinder or delay an investigation.
“I’m proud to be working with members of the General Assembly, some of whom are former police officers, to address this significant problem,” Biden said.
“Government’s most fundamental responsibility is to protect the public,” Biden said. “Those who lie to police officers protect criminals, force law enforcement officers to waste valuable time and threaten public safety. I am proud to be working with former police officers in the legislature to address a significant problem that our police agencies confront every day.”
Sen. Ennis, D-Smyrna, said the issue is a long-standing one and he hope the bill will make people think twice about lying to police and prosecutors during an investigation.
“I like the fact that we’re tailoring this law to fit the crime instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach,” said Ennis, a former state police officer. “The problem of people making false statements, for whatever reason, seems like it’s been around as long as there’s been crime. But I hope this makes people decide against making a false statement.”
A retired New Castle County Police officer, Rep. Mitchell said that the legislation would help police officers gather truthful information to solve crimes.
“When police are investigating a crime, any misstep can be critical. If someone lies to police and sends them down the wrong path, an innocent person could be drawn into the investigation, or police might not catch the criminal,” said Rep. Mitchell, D-Elsmere. “If a person intentionally lies to police, law enforcement should have the ability to hold them accountable. My hope is that this new charge not only catches those who make false statements, but it also prevents others from making the same mistake. The end goal is fewer false statements, which will help police do their jobs more effectively.”
Sen. Lawson, a retired state trooper, said: “I feel that any false information given to the police hinders and prolongs the investigation which allows criminals to generate more victims in the meantime.”
Rep. Lee, R-Laurel, stated, “I am proud to be a prime sponsor of this important legislation. It’s a bill that is overdue and one that I believe will go a long way toward assisting law enforcement with their investigations. As a former State Police officer, I see the value in providing law enforcement with the tools that are needed in order to fight against anything that would obstruct justice. I applaud Senator Ennis and Rep. Mitchell for taking the lead on this legislation and I look forward to working with them and the Attorney General’s Office in getting the bill signed into law.”
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ReplyDeleteThanks to +Scott Adams for the excellent info-post on male victims of #DomesticViolence.
As a #PittsburghDomesticViolenceDefenseAttorney, I find situations involving male victims to be exceedingly rare. However, regardless of the gender of an alleged victim,false allegations of domestic violence can be life-changing events to the "innocent accused", and are criminal by their very nature.
As a #PittsburghCriminalDefenseAttorney, I frequently see fraudulent filings of Petitions for Protection From Abuse (PFA) that allege some sort of threat of serious bodily injury or assault, and compel the innocent accused to vacate their home and leave their children. Frequently, false PFA petitions are filed as a strategy to remove the innocent accused from their homes in emotionally-charged circumstances where a domestic relationship is deteriorating. The false accusations can result in life-changing consequences, including, but not limited to: a permanent criminal record of conviction, imprisonment, loss of employment, inability to provide financial support for children, restrictions on visitation with children, and loss of reputation in the community.
On occasion, I see men filing fraudulent PFA petitions or cross-petitions in Pennsylvania; however, in my experience, the vast majority are filed by women; and, all too frequently at the instigation of a family law
The Violence Against Women Act Ignores Half the Problem ~ By Anna Rittgers
ReplyDeleteThe 2011 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA) provides funding for programs to address domestic violence and will expand the act’s provisions to include services for gays and lesbians. Theoretically, male victims of violence are eligible for help, too. But did you know that? I thought not.
The problem with reauthorizing VAWA is that doing so would perpetuate the notion that domestic violence is something that happens only to women. While it is true that VAWA has evolved over time and now ensures that male victims of partner violence can avail themselves of VAWA benefits and services, the very name of the act implies otherwise. It is quite likely that a male victim would not know he can seek help, given the name of the act.
The image of the abuser is almost always a guy. But this simply isn’t the case. One of the pioneers of the study of family violence was sociologist Richard J. Gelles. Gelles wrote a seminal 1999 article for the old Women’s Quarterly, then a publication of the Independent Women’s Forum, on the “hidden victims” of violence.[i] Gelles admitted that 25 years earlier he had overlooked something important when, in the course of doing research, he meet a couple he called Faith and Alan. Faith had been beaten by boyfriends, her ex-husband, and her husband. Faith’s troubles became the focus of Gelles’s article. Gelles barely noted Faith’s violence towards men, which included breaking Alan’s bones and stabbing a man while he read the newspaper. Faith’s violence merited a mere footnote.
We know more about intimate violence directed at men than we did when Gelles wrote his article. But for cultural reasons, it is very difficult for male victims of domestic violence to seek help. Men are seen to be physically stronger than women, and so he should be able to just “take it.” Furthermore, domestic violence awareness campaigns are horribly one-sided, and almost always portray males as the aggressor and females as victim. Police are often hardwired to view men as the perpetrator. If a man calls 911 for help when he’s being attacked by his spouse or partner, he is often subject to arrest, even if he is the only one with physical injuries.
For seventeen years, there has been unequal treatment before the law. Female aggressors are keenly aware of this unequal justice, and a 2010 study on men who sustain abuse at the hands of their female partners discovered that 67.2% reported their female aggressors made false allegations of spousal abuse. [ii] Of those with children, 48.9% of the men reported that their partners made false allegations of child abuse.[iii] In other words, VAWA’s myopic view of who perpetrates domestic violence gives female abusers an additional avenue to torment their spouses.
The name of the Act itself makes it clear that the law’s focus is to address violence against women in particular, not the general problem of domestic violence. The specialized training that judges and law enforcement officers receive ignores the reality that women are as likely as men to be perpetrators of violence. This creates a justice system that treats male aggressors more harshly than female aggressors of the same crime.
“Justice is a part of the human makeup. And if you deprive a person of Justice on a continuous basis, it’s really an attack (and not to get religious or anything) but it’s an attack on the human soul. We have, as societies, evolved ideas of Justice and we have done that because human nature needs Justice and it needs resolution. And if you deprive somebody of that long enough they’re going to have reactions…” ~ Juli T. Star-Alexander – Executive Director, Redress, Inc.
ReplyDeleteRedress, Inc. 501c3 nonprofit corporation, created to combat corruption. Our purpose is to provide real assistance and solutions for citizens suffering from injustices. We operate as a formal business, with a Board of Directors guiding us. We take the following actions to seek redress: Competently organize as citizens working for the enforcement of our legal rights. Form a coalition so large and so effective that the authorities can no longer ignore us. We support and align with other civil rights groups and get our collective voices heard. Work to pass laws that benefit us and give us the means to fight against corruption, as is our legal right, and we work to repeal laws that are in violation of our legal rights. Become proactive in the election process, by screening of political candidates. As individuals, we support those who are striving to achieve excellence, and show how to remove from office those who have failed to get the job done. Make our presence known through every legal means. We monitor our courts and judges. We petition our government representatives for the assistance they are bound to provide us. We publicize our cases and demand redress. Create a flow of income that enables us to fight back in court, and to assist our members impoverished by the abuses inflicted on us. Create the means to relieve the stresses on us, as we share information and support each other. We become legal advocates for each other; we become an emotional support network for each other; we problem solve for individuals on a group basis! Educate our judges, lawyers, court personnel, law enforcement personnel and elected leaders about our rights as citizens! Actively work to eliminate incompetence, bias/prejudice, special relationships and corruption at all levels of government! Work actively with all media sources, to shed light on our efforts. It is reasonable to expect that if the authorities know we are watching and documenting, that their behaviors will improve. IT'S A HUGE TASK! Accountability will not happen overnight. But we believe that through supporting each other, we support ourselves. This results in a voice for justice and redress that cannot be ignored. Please become familiar with our web site, and feel free to call. We need each other - help us to help you! Although we are beginning operations in Nevada, we intend to extend into each state in a competent fashion. We are NOT attorneys, unless individual attorneys join us as members. We are simply people helping people. For those interested, we do not engage in the practice of law. You might be interested in this article Unauthorized Practice of Law on the Net. Call Redress, Inc. at 702.597.2982 or e-mail us at Redress@redressinc.com. WORKING TOGETHER TO ATTAIN FAIRNESS