This article it’s very interesting. I can see this happening a lot, since I work very close with women in domestic violence, especially dealing with the police and court process. I have witnessed those women that after several years or several times of being abuse, finally they decided to stand up for themselves but they never imagine that doing this, they are going to experience impredicible consequences. Sometimes it can be good for them, but sometimes their process to get out of the situations is not that good. I tell women that sometimes there are situations where morally is totally wrong what the perpetrator is doing but other occasions legally they have some advantage. In this cases victims feel that they are not been support by the justice system.
I remember the time when there was one immigrant women who was arrested and put in jail, because she didn’t speak English and her husband did, she wasn’t able to explain every detail that just happened. For the officers she was the perpetrator, when she was in jail, she was able to talk to an officer in her own language, she explained in details and she even had bruises. Immediately the officer called the victim advocates to explain the situation and the advocates went to talk with the judge, after review ing everything it was determined that she was the victim, than of course she needed to respond to the attack and it was where her husband was injured but compared with the bruises that she had it was evident that the husband was in fault.
I hope that the system can be more condescending with victims and understand that this Battered Woman Syndrome exist.
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