This situation needs to be looked at seriously for a lot of reasons. The healing processes for victims will come from support, and this support will help get people back on thier feet quicker and more able to move on. This in turn will be making way for a more balance World in the future.
I am a victom of sexual and domestic voliance. If more options,
help and information
was provided for myself and my childern, I would have never been so afraid to go. The help that was offered was not an option. Just after my Assault, I was told by many that, they could not help me. Do to the fact that I was still living in the home or that the halfway units were full. It seamed as if I had to be bleading to death or uproot my childern and leave every thing. Be out on the streets with out a dime or any kind of shelter for my childern before someone would give me any kind of aid.
when you are a stay at home mom, no skills,no car, no money,(unless he gives it to you)where do you go. How do you get some where.I called many people.The police took pictures.We went to court and they gave us merrige councling. It wasnt easy for me but I stayed for 2 more years. I suffered while saving a buck hear and there.finally I left every thing.over 4 years of courts,
lawyers,Declaring bankrupticey and loosing many jobs,I fought.I'm still fighting today. Aid sould be give to all in some kind of foram. They could of offer course to gain a skill or aid in the mental state this voliance causes. A compaion or womens group that could stop by. I have suffered almost 7 years total. I was the strong one and protected my childern to the best of my ability. Most women in this world start off having childern young and dont have the knowlage or skills to get a decent job or find away to get aid that will help them. Social services is not going to do it. they only go so far and not every one can be helped by them.... we pay taxes and put in our blood,sweat and tears to the USA. The goverment needs to start checking and worring about there own home before it crumbles to the groud.Our foundation is getting weaker and our goverment isnt seein this. Soon we will be a poor country, with nothing to show for it.....
If we can find the money for a special drug unit, when drugs hurt no one but the user, then surely we can find the resources for one of the largest, farthest reaching, violent epidemics we have ever seen.
Save the children as best we can- not all tactics work or we wouldnt have the lunsford story, or the heather guerrero case, let alone the jessice delatorre's of the world. Stop them before they start
May the truth reach everybody accross the world, and may the silenced voices spread the truth about the horrible facts hidden inside so many innocent children, woman and men.
South African supporter
I just wanted to add that the Judicial System needs to be changed drastically! Our Law Enforcement Officers work hard to arrest the guilty only to have the courts set them free!
Many women that go to court seeking Justice never get it. They are raped again by the Justice System. Help put a stop to it. This isn't just Our issue its everyone's issue.
The dominating paradigm in our society- that rape is the victim's fault- needs to be ended. Any steps made, especially by an administration viewed as anti-women, would be a step in the right direction towards ending one of our most rampant and least discussed problems. Thank You.
I know so many women who have been sexually abused and battered -- something is really, really wrong with the system and attitudes about women. This petition is one good thing we can and must do.
There needs to be harsher punishments imposed on anyone that sexually abuses any person. Lock them up for life on the 1st offense, stop letting them out so they can re-offend.
The kidnapping, molesting, and murdering of our young children needs to STOP NOW!!!
This is a bigger problem than most are aware of because noone wants anyone to know what happened. Either they won't believe you or will reinforce all the gross things you already believe about yourself. PLEASE help, this is such a horrible thing to experience.
I was molested when I was 7 yrs old. And I never told. I was raped when I was 19 yrs old. And I never told. Now I'm opening up and I'm telling my story. I'm not going to be another victim, I'm going to survive this pain. Maybe, you can help by inforcing a law that puts rapists away for a longer period of time. So, that survivors have faith in the judicial system!
Thank You
Rape is traumatic enough, but to feel helpless all over again at the hands of the legal system is just revictimization. One thing a rape victim does not need is more trauma. Please help the victims.
