We were in the smoking area, a place where strangers pull out their secrets and present them to the group, to an echo of, ‘Babe, I’ve been there.’ It was a ‘girls’ afternoon’ that was rapidly turning into a girls’…[Continue Reading...]
Pick Any Door, Just Know He Built the House “She wanted to stay, she could have left so many times!”—These are the claims legal analyst Bernarda Villalona quoted while covering Ventura’s case for Eyewitness News, not representing her own view,…[Continue Reading...]
Leon Marsh, 20, of Awelon Park, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, suspended for the same time period, at Caernarfon Crown Court today (October 23). He had previously admitted charges of sending a communication threatening death of serious harm, sending…[Continue Reading...]
When I began working at a domestic violence shelter years ago, I expected the stories of physical and sexual abuse. What I didn’t expect was the other stuff – the stories about not being allowed to choose what to wear…[Continue Reading...]
A campaigner and survivor of domestic abuse has issued a checklist of signs to help identify somebody who is experiencing coercive control. Samantha Billingham, founder of UK-based organisation Stronger Beginnings, supported the Government of Jersey's campaign to raise awareness around…[Continue Reading...]
Her mother, often caught in the middle, seemed to genuinely believe her partner was simply trying to be a good parent. "She'd sneak into my room and say sorry. 'He's just stressed about work. Things will get better. Try being…[Continue Reading...]
A man who imprisoned and beat his partner, and forced her to wear a full face-covering to hide bruising, has been found guilty of coercive control, strangulation, unlawful wounding, actual bodily harm and fraud. The court was told 67-year-old Antonio…[Continue Reading...]
On The Dating Detectives, hosted by Mackenzie Fultz and Hanna Anderson, a guest named Dominique walks the hosts through her relationship with a man whose affection initially felt movie-like—but soon revealed itself as something much darker. Her story isn’t about…[Continue Reading...]
In the Stanford Prison Experiment, 24 college students—pre-screened for mental stability—were randomly assigned to the roles of guards or prisoners. Although physical violence was explicitly prohibited, the guards exerted control through psychological means, systematically erasing the prisoners' identities, imposing degrading…[Continue Reading...]
Advocates are pushing for the narrative to change about intimate partner violence and coercive control in intimate partner relationships. On July 19th, 23-year-old Madisson Cobb was fatally shot in a parkade while leaving work in Calgary, and her ex-boyfriend is…[Continue Reading...]
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