A record high
Reports of domestic abuse made to Women’s Aid in the Republic of Ireland reached a record high in 2023. The charity said there had been an 18% increase in disclosures of domestic abuse to it compared to the previous year. This, it added, was the most it had received in its 50-year history.
A Cathal Crotty in every home, yeah?
On Wednesday, Women’s Aid also said they had heard from service users that their partners or ex-partners were subjecting them to a broad and brutal pattern of abuse. Among these, women reported assaults with weapons, constant surveillance, and monitoring, relentless put downs and humiliations and the taking and sharing of intimate images online.
There was also complete control over all family finances, sexual assault, rape and being threatened with theirs or their children’s lives.
Ok but it’s only women. Let’s talk about our trans siblings instead.
Meanwhile, Americans can take solace that currently only one Supreme Court justice is nutty enough to think that it’s unconstitutional to deny guns to a man under a domestic violence restraining order for (among other things) assaulting his ex and shooting at her.
No prizes for guessing who the dissenting justice was. When even Justice Alito thinks, “nah, that’s going a little too far, you’re on your own there, Clarence” — yikes.
Seriously. Thanks a lot George Herbert Walker Bush.
What’s frustrating about decisions like these are the media outlets that will report it as a “liberal” victory and imply that the Court isn’t that conservative after all. Rejecting the wildest decisions out of the Fifth Circuit — which, like Martha Alito, has been letting its freak flags fly lately — isn’t “liberal.”