Domestic Abuse Goes Through The Roof During Lockdown!

Thank you for your post.
This is such a massive issue nowadays even more than it was before.
I am not that bovvered about the picture issue, I am totally bothered about what is happening to the abused who are living this hell on earth.
Men/Women/Transgender or whoever.

You just be happy that you are obviously not suffering this, and I wouldn't inflict domestic violent or mental abuse on my worse enemy.

 

Domestic abuse is going to go extinct just like sexism, racism and the rest of discrimination.

 

Look at colonialism and hunting! The world is not going to put up with it forever and why should I and why should any of YOU?

 

Domestic abusers will eventually be on a register just like stalkers.

 

That's a hive mind. We are not standing for monsters!

 

NEW YORK, 30 April 2020 – Climate activist Greta Thunberg today launched a child rights drivencampaign with Danish NGO Human Act to support UNICEF’s efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic and protect children from its direct and knock-on consequences. These include food shortages, strained healthcare systems, violence and lost education.

“Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child-rights crisis,” said Thunberg. “It will affect all children, now and in the long-term, but vulnerable groups will be impacted the most. I’m asking everyone to step up and join me in support of UNICEF’s vital work to save children's lives, to protect health and continue education.”

The campaign is being launched with an initial donation on behalf of Human Act and the Greta Thunberg Foundation to UNICEF of $200,000. Greta Thunberg was recently awarded for her global activism by Human Act who granted her foundation the prize money of $100,000. This sum will now go to UNICEF along with an additional $100,000 from Human Act.

Proceeds from the campaign will go directly towards UNICEF’s emergency programmes to fight COVID-19, including through the provision of soap, masks, gloves, hygiene kits, protective equipment, life-saving information and other support to healthcare systems.

Greta Thunberg and NGO Human Act launch a child rights driven coronavirus campaign for UNICEF

 

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So at long last the British Government is doing something about this horrendous Domestic Abuse situation.
And not before time!

Ministers unveil £76million package for domestic violence victims | Daily Mail Online


Ministers unveil £76million package for domestic violence victims as they admit coronavirus lockdown is 'making it harder' for people to seek out help

• Communities Secretary unveils more support for victims of domestic violence
• Robert Jenrick say there will be £76million of new funding for the vulnerable
• Mr Jenrick admitted that the 'reality' of the lockdown was putting people at risk
• Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19

Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick announced the funding as he took the daily Downing Street press briefing, saying the government would not ignore the 'reality' of what many vulnerable individuals face during the crisis.

He said victims of domestic abuse will get priority access to local housing, and money will be channelled to charities.

Declaring there would be £76million of 'new funding' for victims of domestic violence, Mr Jenrick said: 'For some in our society these measures involve sacrifices that none of us would wish anyone to bear.

For victims of domestic abuse it means being trapped in a nightmare.

'The true evil of domestic abuse is that it leaves vulnerable people including children living in fear in the very place where they should feel most safe and secure: inside their own home.'

Mr Jenrick said the Government's Domestic Abuse Bill, which had its second reading in Parliament last week, would create 'the first ever legal definition of domestic abuse'.

He said that through the Bill, the Government would 'be ensuring that the victims of domestic violence get the priority need status that they need to access to local housing services much more easily'.

He added: 'This is a fully-funded commitment which will mean that no victim of domestic violence has to make the unbearable choice between staying somewhere that they know is unsafe or becoming homeless.'

He said the Government had already announced an extra £15million to strengthen its support, with an extra £16million going directly to refuge services.

'This additional support will ensure more safe spaces and accommodation for survivors of domestic abuse and their children, and the recruitment of additional councillors for victims of sexual violence.'

He added that the funding will also help frontline charities to offer virtual ways to assist those in need, including phone-based services.

Mr Jenrick said: 'We know that some refuges have had to reduce, or even to cancel the services that they would want to provide during the pandemic.

'This funding will help them to meet the challenges posed in this national emergency, and to continue to help those that desperately need support.'

 

Condone the lockdowns, you are condoning the increase in domestic violence that you know will result from them. It's as simple as that

 

People are much more resilient to respiratory infections than they are being beaten, abused, and raped..

 

What utter crap you talk most of the time Vanilla.
You just played yet another blinder, and Orison has the situation spot on with his remark back to you.

You just come across as a very cruel and callous Male Chauvinist Pig, and if there is someone in your life I feel very sorry for that person.

 

Spot on Orison with what you say there Orison.

The lockdowns unfortunately are mostly what needs to happen so as to avoid possibly many more hundreds of thousands of people dying because of being infected by being out in crowds.

 

I am saying end the lockdowns so there are less domestic violence incidents

You are saying the opposite, you want the lockdowns to continue when you know full well it will mean an increase in the number of murders of women and children from domestic violence

And I don't think you really understood what Orison said

 

Well Orison can put me right if that is the case and he wants to Vanilla.

In respect of the lockdowns.
In most cases the people who are the victims of Domestic Abuse, be it mind games or violence, will have already been suffering for years long before the Pandemic.
Coroner virus has just made it a whole lot worse.

The lockdowns are essential to try and defeat the Pandemic, and the excuse that if we keep the lockdown this means more domestic abuse and use that as reason to end the lockdown doesn't wash with me.
That could cost many more thousands of innocent lives.

The Government are bringing in new laws as per my news item to hopefully tackle this, so hopefully this just might stop a lot of the bullying bastards doing what they do.

PS
I apologise for calling you a Male Chauvinist Pig there Vanilla.
On reflection I think I got that wrong.

 

I really do hate to bring the cycle life into it because it makes me look like I don't give a shit about human beings as they succumb to death.

Exactly the opposite we look at the data we see influenza comparatively side-by-side with covid-19.
Localized lockdowns were completely unnecessary. Understandably travel restrictions, however that too is a little too late in the game of the spread of coronavirus..
And last but not least if you didn't have this glowing screen of insanity in your hand 24/7 the virus would have come and went and you wouldn't even have known about it.

I've been listening to police calls and since everyone has a phone with an untraceable number is easy to call the police and say I'm being murdered help help help and then there's nobody there..

the same came with the coronavirus hotline New York City I listen to that for a while on broadcast live eventually shut that call number down it just get in trolled too often.

You have to take every report with a grain of salt.. Sadly..

 

No they are not


And anyone supporting them now is responsible for the mess to follow

 

If both constants hold true, both that people die and that domestic violence increases in a state of lockdown (which is likely) I still feel like locking it down is saving people from dying of coronavirus.

Domestic violence is horrible, but the citizenry is still responsible for their actions. Nobody can make them commit these acts of violence against each other, right?

 

You put this spot on with your opinion Soul.
Well said, and I agree with every word.

 

I do worry about people in times like these, there's some real arseholes about! My wife's ex was one, and what a one, she's a lovely person but she'd had some bad luck with blokes, she had 4 kids with her first fella, then after years of stupidity he left her for an older woman, then some years later she met another bloke, it started off well, then things changed, he started controlling her, telling her what to wear and who she could go out with, and where she could go, then it got physical,whatever she did, she couldn't win. One night he graciously allowed her out with a friend on condition they went to a certain pub and she was home by a certain time, she lost track of time and was going to be late back, so instead of going to the toilet she began to rush home, she wet herself on the way back! She removed her knickers and put them in her bag, she arrived home about ten minutes late and he went mental, he then found out she'd no knickers on, that made it worse, she took them out of her bag, wet, he hit her, that was for wetting herself, then he hit her again, that was for taking her knickers off, finally he gave her a real beating, that was for coming back late!
It went on and on, one night he took her for a drink and they met her brother in the pub, the idiot said something to her that her brother took offence at, she got another beating when they got back home, he'd pick arguments with blokes in the pubs, then she'd get it when he got home drunk, he was an expert at it, he never hit her where it would show, he got jailed after it was discovered he'd been abusing her daughter, he then threatened to tell the social services that she knew all about it unless she wrote to him in prison!
When he came out he was not allowed to go near her, or her kids, but he used to ring her up and threaten her, or walk past the house when he knew she was at work but her daughter was in the house.When she met me she didn't tell me anything about her problems with this guy, I found out by accident when we'd gone for a drink after work and her friend called into the pub to say he'd rung work and made threats against her, I went mental!
She got all upset and wanted to go home, so I said I'd take her, then when we got there I decided to force the issue, I was going to deal with it once and for all. I told her that since he'd told her mate he was going to turn up over the weekend that I was going to stay over and if he did turn up then god help him. We were having a drink and she was just begining to relax when the phone rang, she answered it and her colour drained, it was him! I took the phone from her and just listened, He was ranting on calling her all sorts of names and saying he knew she'd got a boyfriend and he was going to come down and sort us out. Finally I'd had enough and asked him if he knew who he was threatening, he was shocked to hear my voice, but carried on ranting, I said, very politely, that it wasn't a good idea to threaten someone you didn't know, after all, they could be a very nasty person, however, if he did want to make good on his threats then I'd happily stay here all weekend and await his arrival, he never came.
A couple of days later I had a very intersting phone call from a friend of mine, this guy just happened to be on his pool team and had been asking about me, my friend sensed something was amiss and admitted that he knew me, "he's not a nice bloke though, not the type of person you'd want to get on the wrong side of" he warned.The idiot then started asking questions, how nasty was I, how did I fight, that type of stuff, my mate, not particularly liking this bloke decided he needed a scare and told him I didn't fight in the normal sense of the word, I preferred axes, and guns! The idiot seemed quite worried by this and my mate asked if he'd upset me, he didn't tell him about threatening my girlfriend, just that he'd threatened me over the phone, my mate warned him I'd come looking for him and over the next week we played a game of cat and mouse, one time he'd left the pub only a couple of minutes before I arrived. As we lived in a small village it didn't take long for word to get back to him that he was being hunted, word got out why I wanted him and the stories got worse, apparently I had turned up in one pub with an axe, someone swore they'd seen me with a gun, he went into panic mode and tried to hide. By now the police were involved as he'd been ringing the hospital where she worked and making threats, finally they manged to arrest him and it wasn't the first time he'd done this, he'd numerous convictions. He got jailed and on his release was told to stay well away, I think the cop dealing with the case was so disgusted with what he'd done that she sort of inferred that if he came back to the house they may not be too interested if I gave him a kicking!
It was all fine, we'd got married and had no problems for several years then one day a bloke knocked at the door, it was a mate of the idiot, apparently he was terminally ill and had gone all religious, he wanted the wife and her daughter to go and see him, he wanted forgiveness for what he'd done! I went mental, this bloke had no idea about it all, he'd just been asked to come round with a message, he'd never have come if he'd known. Needless to say she ignored his plea for forgiveness.

 

ok, I have a question. Does the lockdown make people get beaten here? It was there before the lock down. It will be there after the lockdown. Not sure I agree with the lockdown is putting people at risk. They were at risk before it, there is no where to run too right now, but will they run? If you are going to run, you don’t care where you go. Walk into a police station or hospital for help.

 

I think that because people are spending more time in the home there has been an increase although more worryingly but less publicised is the increase in violence towards parents by children who are told they cannot go out.
one of the main reasons people don't seek help, certainly the females is that the abuser somehow manages to convince them that they will not be believed and quite often that the abuse is their fault, e.g, if you had cooked my dinner on time then I wouldn't have to hit you, or if you'd have asked my permission to go out then you wouldn't of got a beating. Then they brainwash them into thinking they're worthless, ' who'd want to be with you, you should be grateful I want you'. it's all mind control.
As for blokes, well it's even harder, imagine going to a mate and telling him you were frightened of your wife and that she keeps hitting you, you'd be a laughing stock! I remember one bloke, built like a brick shithouse, his wife was only tiny, but god she was violent, she came to work one day intent on doing him serious harm, she used to batter him with pans, sweeping brushes, anything, often attacking him when he was asleep, he was terrified of her.