@hannahmallory wrote:
Let me tell you this chameleon.
In your post 108, I found your spoiler both intimidating and aggressive. Can you understand that?
I was a little surprised that you would write my name on a piece of paper and take a photo and put it online. This is the kind of intimidation that domestic violence victims have to put up with. Think about that.
OK A FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE RESPONSE TO YOUR POST
Hannah, the post with a picture of the Book on intervention orders, issued by the SA police was in response to your derogatory post kudod by a number of people which stated quite clearly that I was " just making it all up " . As another poster has already indicated the piece of paper was to show I had the information in my possession and it was not simply a photo I had taken from the internet.
This was in reference to a number of my previous posts stating a few weeks ago I had to disarm a knife from a young woman who was attempting to stab her male partner after I was called to mediate during a domestic dispute.
I have stated that the Ambulance officers who where present due to previous issues that day, ( mental health problems the woman was experiencing ) evacuated the premises and locked themselves in their ambulance. They did not return until specialist police arrived from Adelaide and contained the incident. During this extended period of waiting I had to physically restrain the young woman.
Following the traumatic incident I assisted the male victim of the DV by attending an interview with police and phoning a magistrates court to gain information on applying for an interim restraining order against the young woman. The information was posted to this thread as advice on how these orders operate and was the specific post you claimed " I was just making it all up ".
Further to this, after a period of a week of separation which included proffesional services intervention the young couple decided to continue their relationship. I allowed the young woman to return to the house I have purchased specifically to rent to her and her partner on the condition she attend highly specialised counselling which I would pay for ( at $180 per visit )
I have also stated on this forum that my connection with this woman was that a family member alerted me to her circumstances and asked us to assist. She was homeless, ( following a domestic violence incident if you must know ) living on the streets of Melbourne and was frightened and vulnerable. She also desperately wanted to change her circumstances.
The reason they asked us to intervene is that in the past my wife and myself have assisted a small handful of people in similar circumstances, providing them with housing, counselling, access to professional services and advocacy with government organisations. Following our assistance a couple of these people have overcome their circumstances and gone on to live fulfilling lives, a couple of others have relapsed into past habits and addictions. One these relapses is now dead, the other not very well.
I also have some minor, past professional experience in this area, having been employed as a supervisor and councillor for young men undertaking court issued community service orders for a period.
My wife and myself have in the past had some minor success in business building a couple of B & M businesses from scratch and owning a number of rental properties. Our philosophy is that commerce and social responsibility do not need to be mutually exclusive and we have made a point of renting our houses often without a bond to vulnerable people who are struggling in the housing market ( including victims of DV ) and offering employment to people who for social justice reasons are struggling to find employment. This has not been any sort of burden as invariably we have found that if treated with respect and given a chance, these people are just as successful in meeting their obligations as those in more privileged positions.
Further we believe we cant solve all of the problems of the world, but we can use our resources to make a real difference to the lives of a small handful of people. Misfortune can happen to anyone of us at any time and we have also been in recipient of enormous generosity and kindness from complete strangers in our own time of need
I have also never made any great secret of the fact that as a teenager I was also the victim of DV which took many years to come to terms with. Undoubtably that has contributed to my interest in the issue and provided motivation to genuinely assist others affected by DV if I can.
I would suggest your indignation towards my picture of the DV booklet which is strong affirmation that all of this is actually true is more out of embarrassment that you have clearly been proved wrong rather than anything else.
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