Tough Love or Scaring Off Victims

[Diva]

Judge fines women who return to their alleged abusers (http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/010302/localdocs/03domesticviolence.htm).

One one hand I agree that these people tie up the courts only to go against the very ruling they won. On the other hand, the director of the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association made a valid point saying, "The risk here is that women will be discouraged from asking for an order if they think it can get them into trouble later, or if they think a judge is going to chastise them in a courtroom.''

what is your opinion?

[Scranton]

Here's my way of learning people:
You set up a bunsen burner in the courtroom and tel the woman to hold her hand over it.
When all the screams of pain have died down you instruct her to do it again, if she is willing to try again on the bunsen then fucking leave her to it as she knows best.

[Amaurote]

I'm against it. What if she defaults? Is the magistrate going to send her to gaol? There are far too many women in prison for trivial offences already, and sending them down for something as nugatory as this is absurd. The woman's decision to return to the abuser is punishment enough in itself: I assume that the very act of doing so will make it harder to renew the original court order a second time in any case.

[Scranton]

my point exactly, why get burned twice but have court costs to pay in the middle of it?

[Amaurote]

Then you're right: fire is the answer. Next question, Diva :)

http://www.calverley.co.uk/portfolio/IMGS_ST/Bunsen_Burner.jpg

[Jake]

If they want to go back, fine. The kids stay with the courts. For good. They want to be beating to death, that is their choice. The kids are innocent in all of this. Someone has got to start protecting them.