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The Ministry of Human Services and its sexual violence plans

Oct 29, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I read in the print media of plans by the Ministry of Human Services to launch a National task force on sexual violence. I believe this plan of has come about as a result of the brutal slayings of our womenfolk in recent times and the mounting pressure brought to bear on a disgraced minister.
While I commend the minister on this long overdue venture, I make a few comments here which should serve as a guide to the proposed project. The ministry ought to seek the services of a legal practitioner who can either go into the field himself or train personnel who will in turn go into the field to hold seminars with battered women.
From my observation of all the cases of domestic/spousal abuse the abused partners are devoid of or fail to exercise the legal protection that was available to them resulting in the many deaths we hear from time to time. Women need to be aware of the legal steps that can be taken to curb the violent actions of their abuser, for example, a woman will go to the police make a report of a violent partner who when he is arrested will turn and beg for his release in the foolishly held belief that he will somehow change and the violence will stop.
Or that woman who made an urgent call to the police for help after her live-in boyfriend threatened to kill her; the police turn up and did their job in locking up the boyfriend.
However, upon his release she readmitted him into her home and we all know the result of that story – she became another morbid statistic. Women stop treating the police as a bouncer, you cannot ask for the police to throw him out then take him in again and expect a miracle to happen, it just does not work that way.
These are some of the common, often deadly mistakes made by women in the continuing cycle of domestic violence. Our women need to be apprised as to their rights under the law such as seeking a protective order from the court and sticking to it; proceeding with the prosecution of an offender among other rights. These and other rights that are available for women need to be fully explained at such meetings, which I believe will go a far way in bringing down the dismal statistics that presently obtains.
Neil  Adams

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