The Choice: Divorce or Murder?

When I followed the Scott Peterson case I was drawn to the fact that this man showed no emotion before and after his trial. His eyes were “dead” and hollow and he kept that blank look that was there from the beginning when Laci Peterson and her unborn child, Conner, first...

Intl. Domestic Violence Memorial Project Partners with BAVA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 29, 2009 International Domestic Violence Memorial Announces Its Partnership with Be A Voice Arts (BAVA)BAVA's founder Michelle Johnson Major to lead the four Mural-Mosaic for "Faces of Change"Bloomington, Indiana - The Founders of the...

Just one in 15 domestic violence cases results in a conviction

"There has been a huge rise in domestic violence attacks - but prosecutors are only securing convictions in one in 15 cases, it has emerged. " There is, unfortunately, nothing terribly new about this statistic because the clear up rate for domestic violence has always been...

L.A. Murder #215: Xiomara Lopez

A headline gives her a number, "L.A. Murder number 215" but Xiomara Lopez was a 36 year old mother of three children, 11, 7, and 3. As she was holding her 3 year old daughter, and in the presence of the other two children, her husband and she were arguing.From the LAPD...

"IN YOUR DREAMS!"

Cindy was sitting next to a man while riding the city bus, he started to ask her questions. She responded politely but got up and moved to another seat when he tried to place his hand on her knee. When she sat down in another seat, he followed her but remained standing...

Sara Stokes Arrested for Stabbing Husband

Sara Stokes, the former singer from Diddy's MTV reality show Making the Band 2 has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her husband, Tony, after a much heated argument at their home in Moreno Valley, CA. Stoke's bloody mug shot, showing her with a contusion above her eye and...

Simi Valley Shooting Domestic Violence? 5 Women Shot, 1 Killed

Five women have been shot at, and one of the victims has been killed, in a disturbing case of a shooting at a dental office in Simi Valley, California.  The Simi Valley shooting occured at 10:38 am local time and it is believed that the tragedy may be a case of domestic...

False Allegations are a small factor in the Family Courts

Even one of the strongest family violence critics admitted that in a majority of child abuse cases had substance in it.  DR Richard A Gardner, the man who coined the term Parent Alienation Syndrome stated, “The vast majority ("probably over 95%") of all sex abuse...

Hoffman Estates Stabbing: 3 Dead in Illinois Domestic Violence

Police have announced a third death in the shocking April 17, 2009 Hoffman Estates stabbing.  The Engelhardt family of Illinois is just the latest domestic violence tragedy to play out in recent weeks with a stabbing that has left three people dead. Police arrived at the...