Animal abuse is an often overlooked form of family violence. Ahimsa House is Georgia’s only nonprofit organization dedicated to providing emergency shelter and aid to animals in domestic violence situations. Thanks to Mark and Amy Jackson at Karmalized Pictures for their gracious assistance!
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May 17, 2010
Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor meets with a few from the news media to discuss and take questions regarding the May 14th double murder suicide committed by Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy Allen Myron. Myron killed his in-laws Monty and Sue Multanen, then himself after a standoff at his Gig Harbor home.
“…There’s no domestic violence calls, there’s no history of domestic violence in this family…”
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Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence – Day at the Legislature
For more information: www.lcadv.org
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These pictures are real and very graphic watch at ur own risk! Get involved stop domestice violence! Evil Triumphs when good people stand there and do nothing!!!
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No One Believed Me
When men are victims of domestic violence.
By Glenn Sacks, M.A. and Ned Holstein, M.D.
Four Sacramento County Sheriff’s cars pulled up in front of David Woods’s house. He tried to explain to them what happened. But the lead deputy cut him off: “Yeah, that’s fine. Put your hands behind your back.”
David said, “No, wait, she stabbed me … there’s the knife. See the knife? See my neck wound? See?”
“Put your hands behind your back. Turn around,” the deputy replied.
“No,” David protested. “She stabbed…”
The deputies drew their weapons. David’s little daughters came running out of the back bedroom pleading, “Leave Daddy alone! Mamma tried to hurt him with a knife!”
One deputy, a woman, took the children in the bedroom and shut the door. David stood there, cuffed.
How the fight began
David’s wife Ruth had taken the kids out for a walk in 39 degree weather — for seven hours.
“By the time she got back their fingers were blue, their lips were blue, their ears were blue,” David says. The children were soaked; she was soaked. We argued for an hour. “We had to put them in a warm bath to warm them up; they were hypothermic.
Then she started cutting up vegetables for dinner. She had a serrated vegetable knife with a blade about seven inches long. She turned around and she stabbed at me.
“I tried to block it, but I was surprised. I was off balance…the knife went right through my collar and gave me a little nick on my neck.
“She reared back to stab me again. I tried to block it again…I hit her in the mouth. She dropped the knife, ran to the telephone, called 911, and told them, ‘My husband is hitting me! I think he’s gonna kill me.’
“When she dropped the knife, I stood over it. I wouldn’t let her hide the knife. I was going to say to the police, ‘See? She tried to stab me.’”
The truth came from the kids
After 15 minutes, the female deputy returned from the bedroom after talking to David’s children. She told the other deputies, “It’s true. Both of the daughters saw it. She tried to stab him with the knife.”
They took the cuffs off David. “Your wife obviously needs help,” the lead deputy said. “She works for Kaiser, you’ve got health insurance that covers mental health, you need to call the emergency number and get her an appointment.”
David says there’s a double standard when it comes to charging men. “Now, isn’t that strange? When she had a fat lip, it was a felony and I was going to jail. But when they finally realized that she tried to stab me in the neck, it stopped being a crime, and instead it was a mental health issue.”
The history of their case
David Woods is a partially disabled former Marine who endured years of abuse at the hands of his wife Ruth and the law enforcement and domestic violence system which unwittingly enabled her.
Woods, a former construction worker, suffered disabling work-related injuries early in his marriage. He says:
“The violence really began in our family about 10 days after Ruth realized that she had all the power [financially]. I knew I had to get my kids out. I called the largest domestic violence shelter agency in Sacramento County several times. They told me, ‘Men are perpetrators of domestic violence; women are victims of domestic violence,’ and hung up.
“I had no way out. I had no money. Whenever we bought a car, Ruth insisted that the car be in her name only, so that if I took it and went to the movies without her approval she would call the police, and report, ‘I’m estranged from my husband, and he stole my car.’ She did that several times.”
Worst of all is what David’s children endured. One daughter says, “No one would help. Teachers, parents of friends, anyone I tried to talk to about what was going on at home told me I didn’t understand, that my mother couldn’t possibly be the violent party. When the police came to our home, they would always be ready to arrest my father, sometimes putting handcuffs on him. It was up to me to scream as loud as possible that it was my mom and not my dad, so they wouldn’t take him away and leave me alone with her.”
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The Allstate Foundation has teamed up with Ugly Betty actress, Ana Oritz, to overcome domestic violence.The Allstate Foundation supports survivors through resources targeted to build financial independence and educates the public on how hard it is for people to leave an abusive relationship without economic resources.
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One of the most dangerous myths about family violence is the presumption that family court will protect domestic abuse suvivors. Learn how you can protect yourself and your children.
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Twenty-eight poised elegant Latina ladies from the artistic, business, political, cultural and social background of Rhode Island, united to donate their time to benefit the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Tiempo Social Magazine presented “A Runway for Mom” an event to pay respect and recognition to all Latino mothers and provide funds to a charity that helps in solving one of the issues that directly affects some mothers.
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Women usually get away with this kind of abuse. If a man would be the perpetrator he most likely would be arrested and charged.
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This is just my opinion on the photos, we may not agree.
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