Domestic Violence Fact 8

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Local prosecutors were accused of discouraging women from filing criminal charges and from enforcing orders of protection.

Victims were told if they filed complaints and the abuser was arrested or fined the abuser would be provoked and the reign of terror would increase.,

The prosecutor's office were slow to act on domestic violence cases

The prosecutor's office fails to file charges against abusers

Games are played with women. Women report to the prosecutor's office and they are told no one is there to accept their statement to come back later.

Women were warned that an order of protection was just a piece of paper and if she signed it she would be in greater danger because her husband or boyfriend would just be angier.

The office personnel were too busy to review complaints. Women were told to come back next week

Office personnel are rude and condescending to domestic violence victims
And discount the seriousness of their cases.

Victims are told to go away and think about it for 48 hours if victims wants to press charges.

Prosecutors were accused of Decriminalized domestic violence by sending women to civil court for civil orders of protection rather than criminal orders

Prosecutors failed to ask for stiff sentences.