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Lest We Forget Sherry Heron and Anna Adams

It is well known that men pose a higher level of danger to women in the first eighteen months after choosing to end the relationship. On average, women requesting police help have experienced multiple attacks by their husband. Calling the police is often a last resort. In my ten years as an anti-violence worker, numerous women told me that police instructed them to report again “when things get really bad.” Generally, in those cases, as in Sherry’s case, things were already bad enough to warrant an arrest and charges.

By Suzanne Jay
August 15, 2005
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Wife BatteryFront Line
So Why Do They Stay?

Abuse works because many of us continue to pretend it does not happen to “good” women. So anyone who is abused must be “bad”! We blame the victim for her own abuse by calling her codependent. We expect her to prevent the abuse instead of why the abuser chose to abuse. In short, we collude with the abuser. Abusers succeed because they are not abusive all the time. In fact, sometimes they are fun and charming. They are almost always charming around other people.

By Linda A. Osmundson, Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA)
2005
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Tell it to The Judge: Every Woman’s Primer on Testifying in Family Court
By Vancouver Rape Relief Collective
2004
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Press Release: Sherry Heron’s Death – Result of Hospital and Police Procedure

The Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres calls on the RCMP to accept the responsibility they share with the Mission Memorial Hospital for their refusal to protect Sherry Heron, her family and her husband.

By Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
May 28, 2003
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Press Release: Gutting of BC Attorney General’s Wife Assault Policy Will Cost Women’s Lives

The double murders of Sherry Heron and Anna Adams on May 20, 2003 by Bryan Bruce Heron are an example of the heightened danger that women now face as a result of sweeping changes to the Provincial Government's policy on wife assault.

May 27, 2003
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Feminist Rape Crisis Centre to Intervene in Woman’s Civil Suit Against RCMP and Government

In the first case, the government lawyer argued that Ms. Mooney was ‘the author of her own demise’ it was a glaringly woman-blaming defense. It is even more disturbing to realize that this position was taken by our government and spoken in the name of the public, when the public disagrees and is actually supportive of Ms. Mooney.

2003
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Wife BatteryCriminal Justice System
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Factum: Intervener in Bonnie Mooney’s Lawsuit

In VRR’s submission, it is apparent that Bonnie Mooney was one of the many women “abandoned by the system,” to her very great cost. It is also apparent that real change, not impression management, is required as inadequate police responses to women’s complaints of male violence contributes to its perpetuation, devalues women, and fails to protect their security of person. In the result, violent men are not stopped or deterred from engaging in further acts of violence, women reasonably lose confidence in the justice system, and women’s Charter rights to equality and security of the person are violated.

2003
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Wife BatteryCriminal Justice System
Cuts to Legal Aid Undermine Battered Women’s Access to the Courts

The cuts to legal aid, redirection of money to family justice centres and the emphasis on mediation has put women in the position of negotiating with an abusive or controlling man in mediation. Women who manage to escape before getting hit do not qualify for legal aid and are being turned away to deal with the abuser on their own in mediation where all the parties are assumed to be on more or less equal footing.

By Vancouver Rape Relief Collective
1998
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Another Vernon Waiting to Explode

On April 4th, the Coalition of South Asian Women Against Violence called a press conference to remember Rajwar Ghakal and eight members of her family who were all murdered in Vernon, BC by her estranged husband Mark Chahal (on April 5, 1996). The Coalition called the press conference to raise awareness about violence against women, making clear that the Vernon massacre was not an isolated incident and that there could be many other Vernons simmering and ready to explode.

By Bonnie Agnew
May 1997
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Front LineWife Battery
Funny Things Happen on Our Way to Revolution

Ultimately, the result of co-optation is that we lose our ability to create the social changes necessary to our lives.

By Gail Sullivan
1982
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