In 2020, The Weekly campaigned for governments to criminalise coercive control. Now, as new laws come into force in Queensland, we meet families who have lost loved ones to this insidious form of abuse and have been working towards this…[Continue Reading...]
An author and coercive control survivor who suffered years of abuse at the hands of a serving garda said abused women are ‘not being believed’ by the authorities. Nicola Hanney spoke out after new figures provided by the DPP confirm…[Continue Reading...]
Frontline workers in Queensland are welcoming new laws that make coercive control a criminal offence as the state grapples with the ongoing scourge of domestic and family violence. Source: The Catholic Leader. The new offence, which comes into effect on…[Continue Reading...]
Well, I'm so happy to be with you here today, Laura, and this is exactly what I talk about in the cases where I'm an expert witness as well. Dawn Hughes today is speaking as what they call a blind…[Continue Reading...]
A TU Dublin student-led event encouraged the community to look at domestic violence from a broader perspective and at victims across all genders. The organisers of ‘Freedom from Fear’ acknowledged that in Ireland one in three women reported experiencing psychological…[Continue Reading...]
When it comes to cult phenomena, there is one phrase I hear over and over: That would never happen to me. And it’s easy to understand why. With cult content ceaselessly streaming across platforms, viewers always have the upper hand.…[Continue Reading...]
A 27-year-old father who claimed he had been the victim of 'coercive control' at the hands of a former partner took his own life, a court has heard.[Continue Reading...]
When I met a woman I will call Jenny, I was prepared for a tough story. Her physician had contacted me to assess her case and provide treatment for domestic abuse. “I have seen terrible things,” the doctor said, “but…[Continue Reading...]
You know how they say love is blind? Well, in the case of Kyle Filipowski, it seems like his girlfriend Caitlin Hutchison took that saying to a whole new level. According to Kyle’s brother, Daniels Filipowski, Caitlin managed to groom…[Continue Reading...]
The Kyle Filipowski story is getting stranger and stranger whenever new details surface. When one of his brothers and mother threw around the story that the ex-Duke center and newly minted Utah Jazz big man was groomed by his Mormon…[Continue Reading...]
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