As much as our present system claims to stand against harassment, stalking, threatening and domestic abuse, far too often the victims of abuse get the runaround from the very agencies in place to protect them.

All the while, the abusers play the same system, finding a multitude of ways to continue abusing, which affects many, especially when young children are involved under the pretense of absent parental concern.

I realize situations and circumstances differ, yet at what level is enough enough? The victims are to endure until something big happens?

Talk about control issues – a smooth-talking abuser can get his or her obsessions fed by using the emotions and false accusations, and by involving agencies. Fathers who use their children to continue to control the mothers need to be stopped. Victims are held accountable.

If dead-beat dads – and that goes farther than not paying child support – and domestic abuser are so concerned about their children’s welfare, how do they justify their ways and continue to cause mental, emotional, physical and financial stresses that affect the kids?

How many times must the victims’ stories be told before authoritative figures help and not fall for the sly abusers’ lies, adding to the demeaning of innocent women and children?

Where is the protection? Where is the justice?

The system should help those women and children before we lose them.

Linda Hardy, Phillips

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