Men stepping up in reporting cases of abuse

Magistrate Augustus

Local Magistrate Gloria Augustus is applauding the efforts of men in Dominica who she said have been coming forward to report cases of abuse by their women.

Augustus said while most of the cases coming before the courts are related to abuse of women, men too have been victims of abuse.

“Abuse is just not physical abuse. You have verbal abuse and so many other cases of abuse. But yes we have been seeing men coming forward and reporting their cases,” she said.

Meantime Augustus said some of these cases of abuse can be resolved by others ways other than the courts.

“Some matters can be resolved out of court. Communication and counseling could also help solve the problem because in the end, we do not want people to break up. Sometimes some people come and then when the case has started they don’t show up again,” she said.

According to her, some of the people need to communicate with each other or have neutral persons to talk to them.

“One of the sad things is that children are caught in the middle of it and it affects them. It affects their schoolwork and how they relate to the parents,” she said.

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15 Comments

  1. sugarcane
    August 25, 2010

    THERE ARE ALL KIND OF ABUSE, MAN ABUSE, WOMAN ABUSE, AND LAWYERS / MAGISTRATES THAT ARE ABUSING FAMILY LAND ALL IN THE NAME OF MONEY.

  2. jen
    August 25, 2010

    @Tomas: you need psychological help i hope your man gets to read this, and be very careful what you wish for

  3. jen
    August 25, 2010

    @please lord: then its a cycle that will never end because they are going to think it is ok because my mom is doing it to my dad

  4. jen
    August 25, 2010

    @Anonymous: that is pure ignorance listen to yourself

  5. August 25, 2010

    Well it is good to hear that the complaint of men who feel that they are abused by their women will be considered. The truth is that most women experience physical abuse from their men, and quite often they provoke these men to abuse them physically.

    But most men who are abused by their women experience emotional abuse from these women. These women do not consider the man to be a human beings with senses like themselves, as they wickedly abuse the Love those men are offering to them. I have witnessed the way my mom treats my dad, who is a man who dearly loves her as much he loves us, who are children. I know that this kind of treatment is the worst abuse a person can experience.

    My dad is a very strong man, but he will not lay a finger on my mom. He always says that she has no place in her body to receive a beating from him. And so, he simply accept emotional abuse from her.

    Maybe those men in Dominica, who are reporting abuse from their women are only considering physical abuse. Of course, I do not understand how a man can allow a woman to abuse him physically.

    That is why I hope that those men understand that the worst abuse is emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is extremely bad for the mind. Men should feel free and comfortable to talk about the emotional abuse that they encounter from their women. And it is a good thing that Dominica is beginning to allow this open complaint.

  6. Hahhaha
    August 24, 2010

    @ where’s your h fairplay? you need to give us an H not punanai:

  7. August 24, 2010

    i personally duz not feel sorry for them man when they getting abuse k. peter paying for paul cuz more women is getting abuse than those man, some of them don’t even want to pay child support thinking is the woman they hurting.

  8. have mercy
    August 24, 2010

    patay bouda yo mem they to like to think they incontrol yes boss there a**

  9. Anti-hate
    August 24, 2010

    lol @ ‘men’ who make their women abuse them…

  10. Fairplay
    August 24, 2010

    If a woman does not give her man PUNANI when he wants it–that’s psycological abuse.

  11. Anonymous
    August 24, 2010

    dem men too wicked i glad they are being abuse by woman

  12. please lord
    August 24, 2010

    just think of what the kids are going through. who’s going to stand up for them. no one they have to tke the abuse till lthey 21.

  13. from experience
    August 24, 2010

    all wah she saying is true but most times that magistrate is in the favor of the women…if a child got a mother that can’t take up her responsibilities and the father is willing ….just let the father have the kid….if not that child is going to suffer under the mother worst again if that child father has another woman……. is now trouble will start

  14. Tomas
    August 24, 2010

    If I is am woman and my man make a report, he go see what he will get when he come back home!

  15. Justice wll prevail
    August 24, 2010

    It was about time, Woman as as abusive as much as men are.

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