First Full Face Transplant: A domestic violence survivor and mother

For anyone that still believes that survivors are lying, clearly they have been misinformed.  One of the reasons why most domestic violence cases don't connect to Family Court is because of the secrecy laws that prevent victims from speaking out.  Until Darcey Freeman was thrown off the bridge, everyone assumed that people who accessed the Family Court and raised concerns about domestic violence were making false allegations.  False Allegations have been found in recent studies to be 5% or even less.  Some victims are too afraid to raise it because of the legal risks of losing children or being charged with costs if they cannot provide enough evidence.  Unlike the criminal court, the Family court demands victims to provide the evidence and routinely makes orders that exposes children and domestic violence victims to risks that they attempted to be safe from.  

Since the early 1980s, Family Courts all over the world have supported the batterers side unless there was an obvious case of domestic violence and even then the stakes for protection are high.  The psychological trauma that a victim faces is twisted into, "She is crazy" in order to undermine her credibility to report the violence and capacity to look after the children. 

The amount of legal abuse that goes on is profound and to put it frankly its pure evil.  Its sad to hear children and mothers living in fear not just because of his violence, but because of a court that backs it.  An injustice that tears apart any good natured person.  Both men and women have watched sisters, daughters and wives reduced to tears over the magnitude of this problem.  

There is only one thing that needs to be done: Protect victims and their children.

Simple as that, there is no negotiations when a life is at risk.