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Oct. 3, 2013: Letter to Rita Smith, Executive Director of National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Recently we reviewed your Fact Sheet found at http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet(National).pdf. We compared the information found in your Fact Sheet against 10 objective criteria. Unfortunately, we found your Fact Sheet met only 1 of the 10 criteria. Summary Sheet Organization: NCADV F Name of president:  Rita [...]

October 28, 2013: Letter to Katie Ray-Jones, President of The National Domestic Violence Hotline   Recently we reviewed your Fact Sheet found at http://www.thehotline.org/is-this-abuse/statistics/. We compared the information found in your Fact Sheet against 10 objective criteria. Unfortunately, we found your Fact Sheet met only 3 of the 10 criteria. Summary Sheet Organization: The National DV Hotline F Name [...]

December 6, 2013: Letter to Hon. David E. Stucki, President of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Recently we reviewed your Fact Sheet found at http://www.ncjfcj.org/sites/default/files/DV_FactSheet_2012_0.pdf. We compared the information found in your Fact Sheet against 10 objective criteria. Unfortunately, we found your Fact Sheet met only 1 of the 10 criteria. Summary Sheet  Grade Organization: [...]

Dec. 26, 2013: Letter to Carol Kurzig, President of AVON Foundation for Women Recently we reviewed your Fact Sheet found at http://www.avonfoundation.org/assets/dv-resource-guide.pdf. We compared the information found in your Fact Sheet against 10 objective criteria. Unfortunately, we found your Fact Sheet met only 1 of the 10 criteria. Summary Sheet Organization: AVON Foundation for Women F Name of [...]

Take Rape Seriously‘If You Keep Repeating a Myth, Will People Begin to Believe It?’ Abuse is a major problem in our society. Unfortunately, abuse myths have now become widespread — some claims are so exaggerated as to be farcical. These factoids are harmful to victims, to society, and to the credibility of the entire abuse-reduction effort. These myths have a common [...]

Consensus: Campus Kangaroo Courts are Harming Survivors SUCCESS! On May 6, 2020, the Department of Education released its new Title IX regulation. The regulation, which supports both complainants and the accused, took effect on August 14, 2020. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In 2011 the Department of Education released its Dear Colleague Letter on campus sexual violence. The Letter launched a bold [...]

Fallacies of Victim-Centered Methods "Victim-centered" methods -- also known as trauma-informed or “Start By Believing” -- presume that the complainant has experienced significant physical and psychological trauma. As a result, victim-centered investigations emphasize the collection of evidence supportive of the complainant and discourage the collection of exculpatory evidence. Victim-centered investigations represent a departure from ethical standards of [...]

#MeToo? #NotMe! UPDATE: In 2018, Joe Biden announced, “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real.” But in a March 2020 interview, Tara Reade claimed she had been assaulted by Biden in [...]

Let’s Approve the New Title IX Regulation, End Campus ‘Kangaroo Courts’ SUCCESS! On May 6, 2020, the Department of Education released its new Title IX regulation. The regulation, which will support both complainants and the accused, takes effect on August 14, 2020. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Campus disciplinary committees have often been derided as “Kangaroo Courts” due to their deeply flawed [...]

One in 10 Is Far Too Many Nikki Yovino, 18, a student at Sacred Heart University, was convicted for falsely reporting that she had been raped by two football players. On August 23, 2018 she was sentenced to one year in jail. Prosecutor Tatiana Messina charged that Yovino — pictured on the right — had harmed [...]