🚩Sexually abusing children 🚩

Almost 1 in 10 men admit to doing it.

1 in 6 admit to having thought about it.

1 in 15 would do it, if they could get away with it.

Yet, as a psychiatrist I’ve personally witnessed
1) psychiatrists disbelieving disclosing children

(Cont)

https://twitter.com/mike_salter/status/1726316779675484598

3) I’ve witnessed child protection disbelieve children
4) I’ve witnessed judges & magistrates disbelieve children
5) I’ve witnessed child psychologists disbelieve children
6) I’ve witnessed parents disbelieve children
7) I’ve witnessed lawyers disbelieve their own child clients

A ragey thread🧵 about Tasers

1/ So, Tasers were first introduced in 2002 to REDUCE firearm use.
…to offer a less deadly alternative…

To reduce harm, and to save lives. 2/ initially they were used by specialist units, in restricted areas to allow evaluation to take place.

An independent evaluation was done……

1/ This week we officially opened Australias first womens-only hospital dedicated to treating the survivors of trauma. @JaneCaro @SummersAnne @sammostyn @jessradio @DLulabele @MattsJane @WINNews_Woll @stellalauri1 #PTSD #CPTSD @ramsayhealth @HarbMerrylord dai.ly/x8fwklw 2/ Although I’ve advocated in this space through all levels of govt- only the private sector have truly committed - with the most beautiful location, sparing no expense to making it a truly healing environment for survivors…

1/Thread 🧵 Trigger warning

Dear @MarkSpeakman

I need to talk to you about the Coercive Control bill you are trying to quickly push through before the election.

First, let me establish that I very much want to see coercive control criminalised.

However….
@AbigailBoydMLC 2/ this bill is not fit for purpose & here’s why

Your bill says that the survivors must be able to prove that the abuse was carried out with ‘an INTENT to control the victim’

But, here’s the thing…
#auspol #coercivecontrol @coercivecontrol @DrEmmaKatz @DrKathlWild @DrProudman

🧵 1/ This week, I have been asked multiple times- why this new Trauma Hospital is for women-only.
I have been accused of discriminating against male victims of trauma.

‘What about men?’ They ask, and I would like to explain why. @PatsKarvelas @EleniPsaltis @kelfuller 2/ I have spent many years working with survivors of trauma, in fact much of my work has been with men…defence personnel, police and other first responders. I continue to treat those men. @kellyanntansley @EleniPsaltis

Murray, have you read the report by the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council revealed 45 per cent of women in the state's psychiatric hospitals have been sexually assaulted in their care?
@PatsKarvelas @EleniPsaltis @davtw2 @angelo_virgona @mbismark

https://twitter.com/imm_listening/status/1523427996110966785

The same report showed that 70% of women who end up in psych hospitals have been victims of some form of sexual abuse.

So I stand by my clinical opinion that it is better to keep our female patients both physically & psychologically safe in a single sex environment

A thread 🧵 #trigger #FamilyCourt

1/ This week I made a submission to the Attorney Generals Dept looking at how we can improve the competency & accountability of Family Court Reporters…
@custodypeace @NataliePage31 @LynAnge11 @sally_stevensxn @davtw2 @DMckateface @CCCBuryStEd 2/ Family Court Writers are the people who are given unwavering support by the Family Court to provide an ‘expert opinion’ on custody of children…often after having only met them once or twice. @DrEmmaKatz @ManjulaOConnor @AbigailBoydMLC @DLulabele @TheACECC @engenderedpod

@sally_stevensxn & I were able to speak with these fantastic business & community leaders willing & wanting to be a part of a push for trauma care for the survivors of domestic & sexual violence. @sally_stevensxn @illawarramerc
illawarramercury.com.au/story/7542908/ via @illawarramerc "The idea that a police officer or firefighter, who do great jobs, can access that support but the witnesses, the people who suffer directly don't, that shocked me,"

Adam McMahon
@TamePunk @BrittHiggins_ @dhanyajmani @Drhutch2011 @nikhilautar1 @DMckateface @Schwartziris

1/ My heart is broken. Tonight I found out my friends cancer has returned. Could have caught it earlier, except they cancelled his biopsy, because of COVID. This is what living wt COVID looks like. This is what living in a 1st world country looks like, where govt fails to ensure 2/ adequate vaccine supply, fails to educate its people about the importance of vaccines, a govt that utterly fails at gaining the respect of its people by treating them respectfully & honestly.

1/ IMPORTANT THREAD/ TRIGGER Warning- child sexual abuse
What happens when a Judge in the Family Law Court hears a contested allegation of child sexual abuse?? (i.e most of them)
The results of this research are HORRIFIC doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.1… @NataliePage31 2/ 14% . Just 14% of Family Court Judges expressed belief that contested allegations of child sexual abuse was true. @Drhutch2011 @catherine_falc @CommissionerDA @dlgiven @AbigailBoydMLC @TamePunk @DeanRosario @DD_Style_007 @kelly_pages @ShesEqual @LAField15 @GeraldineBilst1

As a POC -this is offensive - “already-empowered white middle class women”? Do we really want to rate women’s suffering like this? Abused white women shouldn’t be disregarded in this conversation. Empowered is not a word I would use for anyone experiencing FDV or sexual violence

https://twitter.com/adelepurrsisted/status/1435516978429530112

Some of my white middle-class employed patients have experienced strangulation, brain-damage, electrocution, rape as infants, tied up for days, whipped, held under water, multiple fractures- amongst many other types of trauma. It’s not OK to disregard this entire population.

TRIGGER.
We need to talk about an American psychiatrist called Richard Gardner

He believed paedophilia was normal.
He believed 90% of women were lying about the abuse they suffered.

He literally ‘made-up’ a condition “Parental Alienation Syndrome” wt NO evidence whatsoever

https://twitter.com/DrProudman/status/1417862345129402375

2/ He used his position & influence to deliberately put kids into abusers homes

Even when med reports, police reports, teachers reports corroborated the abuse, Gardners view the mother ‘made it up’ would override those reports
For example …@DLulabele @jessradio @GeraldineBilst1

Calling her 45 times whilst she’s at work, then repeatedly calling her boss when she doesn’t answer, so frequently that she loses her job ..that…that will no longer be a legal behaviour.

https://twitter.com/drwilliams/status/1364801681309884417

Not allowing her to sit on chairs but demanding she sits on the floor, also won’t be legal

***Thread ***Absolutely and utterly unsurprising, Remembering that in 2016 the NSW Sentencing Council at the time - consisting of 12 male and 3 female members found ‘no problem with the sentencing of DV offenders’ despite the disturbing facts that...

https://twitter.com/womenssafetynsw/status/1398175241092812802

1. DV offenders found guilty of common assault (the most common charge) were less likely to go to prison @HayleyFoster_ @WCS_CEO @paulmcgorrery @melwojtas @MattsJane @davtw @RonniSalt @nadinevoncohen @MFWitches @yabbtopia @earthma23 @DMckateface @kelfuller @PCKJ3627 @custodypeace

Mon night on @TheFeedSBS NSW Police Officer McDermott said he respected my ‘opinion’ but I needed to know that @nswpolice WERE taking action on the vast majority of cases reported, that they WERE providing protection to ‘victims’, that they were WINNING & should be acknowledged 2/ for getting the ‘vast majority’ right. He said @nswpolice ARE supporting ‘our victims’
He said if the ‘narrative gets out’ that police are giving a bad service then ‘who will go to the police’?
I didn’t get the opportunity to reply to this misinformation at the time so ...

1/ I am a WOC & I advocate for Coercive control laws. The systemic racial & misogynistic injustices in this system are abhorrent. Current laws have been written by white men, these laws will be different in that they reflect the experiences of women. We need to draw a clear line

https://twitter.com/debkilroy/status/1395117892883009536

2/ between wanting to abolish the entire criminal justice system (abolitionism) & wanting to deny criminalising this one specific behaviour. None of the abolitionists have argued that CC is dangerous. The fight should remain with the oppressive system - not the women that seek to

Thread: Outside Parl House tonight @davtw2 @FeeBenson
22 candles, to remember the 22 women lost to gender-based violence this year. It’s too easy to pretend these devastating losses are an inevitability. This is the lie our govt wants us to believe.We can stop these deaths if we 1. Ensue safe houses & enhanced security for women to escape to
2. provide extensive trauma based psychological care for her & the children to enable healing & separation
3. Start believing women when they report abuse
4. Start believing the children who report abuse

1. APOLOGIES long and TRIGGERing thread.
Murder/ psychopathy/ #familyviolence

“He told me I wasn’t going to be with anyone else he told me I was going to die”
Police / lawyers think these things are said in anger or frustration. They tell victims to “block him” or “report him”

https://twitter.com/60mins/status/1381209028051668993

2.But victims recognise the PSYCHOPATH they live with. They’re not wrong. They know him. They wish they were wrong & are forever trying to talk themselves into believing it’s their fault. To imagine otherwise is even more horrific @CCCBuryStEd @thecrimeanalyst @JaneCaro

Thread. His adult daughter was terrified of him. When her house was listed for sale he deliberately booked an inspection so he could intimidate her walking through her home. He turned up at his ex wife’s yoga class, where she saw him behind her in the mirror. #coercivecontrol These are examples coercive control. Coercive control is a legal form of abuse.
When Olga reported him turning up to the class the police said she was trying to get “advantage in the family court.” @custodypeace @MattsJane @CCCBuryStEd @moonscapecat @LeighGoodmark @melwojtas

1. This is completely normal in #trauma!Laying down memory is a complex process & so is “retrieving” memories.
It’s unfortunate when memories that come flooding back are so horrific bc it can be like experiencing the event all over again for the second time, but yes (cont)

https://twitter.com/rohde_susan/status/1378920987702427652

2. those memories can come flooding back DECADES later.
Whilst devastating, on some level it can make things make so more sense, but also sometimes add to feeling of confusion as to whether event really happened.

Thread 1. OK It would be Great if ppl understood that when a person is assaulted or under threat, particularly children or other vulnerable-they go into a ‘freeze mode’. It is a well-described SURVIVAL technique- to dissociate from reality in order to maximise chances of survival

https://twitter.com/Paley6554/status/1378827160673087490

2. That there are still people who would question a child for not fighting back against an adult, or a woman afraid her rapist may kill her after he’s ‘done’ is testimony to just how far we are from truly understanding the impact of trauma. It is a male concept - that a true