back ... need help!!!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-09-2005
back ... need help!!!
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Mon, 06-12-2006 - 10:16am
My stbxh abused me again on wed night. The police here are no help!!! They basicaly treated me as a second class citizen , telling me that children get taken away when women call the police about abuse and that they don't even have time to pick up the " criminals" No I guess he isn't a criminal because we are still legaly married??????
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-05-2004
Mon, 06-12-2006 - 12:07pm

Oh, no, he's a criminal all right. You've simply fallen victim to the good ol' boys' network- would I be correct in suggesting you live in a small town?

That said, you do have some options. When something similar happened to someone else, I was advised to have her contact the state police. If it was municipal police and not the sheriff's department that did this, the sheriff's department might be another good route. You can also contact the captain of the officers that did this and tell him what they did.

Don't take their word that no crime has been committed- one HAS, it's called assault, and one of the agencies mentioned will likely help you prosecute as such. I know a lady from another board whose son was receiving death threats on his cell. The town police refused to even take a report, and the cellphone company couldn't help her without a subpoena. She called the sheriff's dept., who felt a good deal more strongly about death threats and are now in the process of tracking down the threatener. I would surely think one of these options will work.

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