by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
I can’t believe that 20 years have passed already. There are important historical events that are forever etched in our brains. We remember where we were, and how they changed our world. For me, I remember clearly when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon (1969)....
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
Senator Al Franken knows that a parents dream has become a battered woman’s nightmare. Mobile phone tracking apps, marketed as a way parents can know where their children really are is being used instead by domestic abusers as a way to stalk their victims. In the post...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
Many months ago, the Anchorage Daily News reported a brutal stabbing. Fortunately, the victim lived. Her story wasn’t so unique. Her former boyfriend, who didn’t appear to harbor ill-will towards her about their break-up two months earlier, apparently...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
With all the other things going on nationally, I had not paid attention to the Oscar Pistorius trial. Honestly, I thought Pistorius was a political figure. And then I stayed home last weekend and caught up with the news. What’s not fascinating about a tragic...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
“I just wish that I’d never made him angry!” I hadn’t got the memo that Throwback Thursday had morphed into other arenas besides Facebook. Yet there I was that day, in the lobby at work after court with a battered 18 year-old girl, whose black...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
Greetings! My computer just returned from sick leave so I’ll be brief. Lesson learned: If you get a pop-up saying Windows Advanced Security found problems on your computer, that is malware. Don’t click on anything! Private Violence, or click on the safe...