@Lawsome_@Lawsome_ just bumping this. And when I say family law arena-I mean as opposed to following just criminal code involvement and/or delving into addressing that thing commonly k no own as the silver bullet when the actual victim of coercive control becomes an accused 🤔
@Lawsome_ What’s your experience with any Family Law related civil matters (obviously pre-tort), AND, do you intend on pursuing this coercive control tort in the Family Law arena? Thks 😊
@NeubergerLaw ….2/2-over the other party by false accusations. Seems like the ultimate form of coercive control. Now will anyone successfully start adopting the mentality needed to treat the allegedly accused as the victim they actually are 🤔
@NeubergerLaw Please discuss - well after the call now I guess, thoughts on the ability to successfully have those charges laid or to successfully apply the new civil tort of same name, in cases where the “silver bullet” effect was used by the controller in criminal court to gain advantage…
🚨BREAKING: Ottawa Police command officers pushing new internal charges against Detective Helen Grus over documentary appearance.
Two highly placed sources, neither of them Detective Grus nor anyone on her legal team, advise this reporter that @OttawaPolice command has held two meetings in April concerning Grus’s appearance in the coming major documentary Silencing Detective Grus, as well as other online shows and news media.
I am satisfied the information is credible.
One of these same sources told me in September 2022 that Grus would soon be unsuspended and ordered back to work at the Robbery Squad. That was two weeks before Grus or her lawyer were informed.
The source was correct.
Now I am told Ottawa Police command officers are divided. Some are pushing new internal disciplinary charges against Detective Grus. Others are advising OPS to leave the situation alone.
More to come.
THIS is what it’s like to be an experienced female officer here in Ontario: Your male counterparts who were found to have deliberately accessed confidential, protected records of private citizens dozens and dozens of times for the OWN use, get the police-career equivalent of a slap on the wrist.
Meanwhile, in doing your job, you begin investigating the sudden deaths of infants; and in keeping your superiors informed about your efforts, find yourself as the accused in a Kangaroo court tribunal, betrayed by male leaders you trusted without question, career destroyed, and you think you can finally breath but guess what: to add insult to GRAVE moral injury, the organization you gave the last 20 years of your life to decides that bullying you for speaking to someone about your experience is a FAR more important than anything else they could possibly do with those same resources.
#police #ontario
These amazing words were sent to us from a friend and we couldn’t agree more.
We’ve stood by Helen since the very beginning and will continue to support this wonderful, brave woman.
First and foremost, Helen is so grateful for the prayers and support.
She is in this challenge as she believes in the principles of policing; preserve peace, prevent crime, protect life and property. There are countless amazing officers risking their lives daily to do just that.
When unlawful orders are given by police supervisors, officers must challenge them; respectfully, however with the authority all officers are granted by law.
This challenging time in Helen's life in dealing with the allegations against her, will not break her. The financial costs are tremendous however, whoever concocted the ridiculous, unprecedented Discreditable Conduct charge against Helen, simply doesn't know her. Perhaps they thought she'd take a plea and hunker down quietly.
They didn't realize that Helen doesn't worship money, she worships God.
She doesn't love money, she loves life!
Truth, Love and Compassion will prevail.
I once sued some for libel.
The case was made.
It went to trial.
He could prove none of the things he wrote about me were true.
During trial, something the defendants lawyer said to the Judge, “he’s also made allegations against another good friend of yours,” caused me to do research the following day.
Turns out not only was the a Judge best friends with a friend of the defendant, she also knew the defendant.
We can all agree this should’ve been disclosed and she should’ve recused herself.
So I sent a letter the very next day, asking the judge to recuse herself.
No response.
A year later she found in the defendants favour.
The finding was missing important facts, and would’ve easily been stuck down at appeal.
Nobody told me.
They “forgot.”
I missed the 30 day appeal deadline.
He was awarded costs, but I caught that and appealed that.
The appeal on costs was never heard and sits in limbo. I don’t want to push it because I see how corrupt the system is. The defendant doesn’t want to push it because I’ll scream and shout to the divisional court how I was set up to fail, how the Judge should’ve recused herself, and show evidence of the same.
The point of this story is …
… the Judicial system in #Canada can simply ignore blatant facts that prove bias.
There is no way to me to complain against that Judge or the court staff who “forgot” to tell me a decision had been handed down until day after I could legally appeal.
There’s no oversight, and that’s by design.
#onpoli #cdnpoli
@mobinfiltrator Orrrrrrr…just officer dropping off an info to obtain and never actual speaking to a Judge-who just rubber stamped a 117 home invasion of sorts. Using completely fabricated evidence when conflicting, positive evidence existed. It’s a super system.
Kathryn Bolkovac was a police officer in Lincoln, Nebraska. Years on the force. Divorced. Three grown children. Looking for a change.
1998. She applied to join the UN's International Police Task Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The IPTF. Created after the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords. Mission was to monitor and train local law enforcement after the Bosnian War.
1999. Signed a contract with DynCorp Aerospace. US defense contractor. 15 million dollar UN-related contract to hire and train police officers for duty in Bosnia. Pay was 85,000 dollars. Better than Lincoln PD.
After training in Fort Worth, Texas, she was sent to Sarajevo.
Human rights investigator. Three months later deployed to Zenica. Put in charge of fighting violence against women. Head of the department of gender affairs.
Shortly after arriving she encountered a battered young woman. Not from the Balkans. From Moldova. Spoke neither English nor Bosnian. Couldn't explain what happened. But she could point Kathryn to a local nightclub.
The Florida.
Kathryn investigated. Found seven girls locked in a room upstairs. Held captive. No passports. No way out. Room littered with used condoms.
Her team walked the perimeter. Found an exterior staircase. Locked door on the second floor. Forced it open.
Seven more girls. Also captive.
Sex trafficking ring operated by the Serbian mafia. Girls trafficked from Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania. Some as young as 12 years old.
Kathryn found a metal box at the Florida. Full of US dollars.
The clientele were Americans working in Bosnia. Potentially her own fellow police officers.
Brothels disguised as bars. Restaurants. Hotels. Clubs. Scattered throughout the hills of Bosnia. Victims told her directly. American contractors were buying underage girls.
One American police officer working alongside her told her he had purchased a woman outright from a bar owner right outside Sarajevo. Took her home. To keep. To marry. To bring back to the United States.
It got worse.
International peacekeepers and UN bureaucrats were keeping the underground sex trade alive. Officers from multiple countries working under DynCorp. Some were customers. Some were facilitators.
Local police confirmed it. The trafficking started with the arrival of the international peacekeepers.
Kathryn pushed for formal investigations. She was reassigned. When she questioned her colleagues' diplomatic immunity she was demoted. Peacekeepers couldn't be prosecuted for crimes committed overseas.
Fed up. She sent an email.
Detailed everything. Coerced prostitution. Cross-border smuggling of women. Named specific personnel allegedly involved. Sent it to more than 50 people. UN officials. DynCorp officials. Up the entire chain of command.
Less than two years on the job. Kathryn was fired.
Gross misconduct. Falsifying timesheets they said.
She was forced to flee the country. Carrying a bag packed with her investigative reports. A probable threat to her life had been determined.
She took her story to BBC News. June 2001. Filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against DynCorp in a UK employment tribunal.
August 2, 2002. The tribunal ruled unanimously in her favor. DynCorp ordered to pay approximately 153,000 dollars in damages.
DynCorp appealed. Then dropped the appeal in April 2003. Days before announcing an enormously lucrative new contract with the US State Department. To police Iraq's civilian population during the War on Terror.
DynCorp fired seven employees for solicitation.
Not one faced criminal prosecution. No clear jurisdiction. US Army had no authority over civilian contractors. Case transferred to Bosnian police. Bosnian police unsure about diplomatic immunity under the Dayton Peace Accords.
Zero prosecutions. Zero.
The seven were simply repatriated. Sent home to their countries.
DynCorp kept winning government contracts. Similar police training missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. US Government continued working with them throughout.
At least two of the men involved in trafficking at DynCorp were later promoted to upper management.
Kathryn was forced out of policing entirely.
2010. Hollywood made the movie. The Whistleblower. Rachel Weisz played Kathryn. Screened at the United Nations in New York. For legal reasons DynCorp was renamed Democra Security.
2011. Kathryn was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Same year she graduated with a degree in political science from University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She now lives in the Netherlands. Works a desk job as a project manager for an international auctioneering firm. Tried to obtain international contract work. Infamous in that community. Couldn't get back in.
The men who bought children were promoted. The woman who reported it works a desk job.
Think about what Kathryn found.
Sent to Bosnia to help rebuild a war-torn country. Discovered the people sent to protect were the ones exploiting. UN peacekeepers buying girls. American contractors raping children. Organizations created to help enabling a sex trade.
Girls as young as 12. Locked in rooms. No passports. No escape.
She documented everything. Investigated for months. Reported to 50 officials. Every single one ignored her.
Demoted. Fired. Threatened. Forced to flee the country carrying evidence in a bag.
Won her lawsuit. Exposed the scandal to the world. Forced the UN to create oversight units. Became a Hollywood film. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Zero men prosecuted.
Not one.
Kathryn said it clearly. What happened in Bosnia is similar to later scandals. The abuse continues. The cover-ups continue.
But because of her the world saw it. Girls were saved from slavery. UN complicity was proven. The cover-up was exposed.
She paid for it with her career. With her ability to work in the field she loved. With years of her life fighting for justice that never fully came.
Kathryn Bolkovac. Nebraska police officer. Went to Bosnia in 1999 to help.
Found children locked in rooms instead.
Reported it. Lost everything. Still speaking about it today.
Zero men prosecuted. Not one.
@whatdoesntkillu You should hear the Crown’s questions towards a falsely accused same sex partner when the non-victim makes up historical allegations to cover up kidnapping their https://t.co/uKVQOLM8DC’s wild what kind of accusatory arguments play out with age difference, how “gay” you are,&more
80% of people in an Ontario jail haven't been convicted of a crime.
“This lays waste to the principle of the presumption of innocence. It also lays waste to the argument we have a catch and release system and that our bail is too lenient.”
https://t.co/RFGoLUKDM4
It is so important that people wake up and realize what is happening around them even if they don’t think they will ever be affected…it can easily happen to you too…
Here's a shocking case out of Canberra (where I live), and a warning we can't ignore...
A 34-year-old man in the Australian Capital Territory, Thomas Zaja, was subjected to a 3 am armed police raid, jailed for two weeks, and separated from his child: all based on fabricated allegations made by a former partner.
A magistrate later found the claims were entirely false, describing the conduct of police and prosecutors as “egregious” and the failure to act on exculpatory evidence as “unbelievable”.
Digital forensic evidence ultimately proved that the complainant had sent threatening messages to herself, in order to frame him...
Let that sink in.
This isn't just a legal failure. It’s a deeply human failure, and a tragedy.
Zaja lost:
- His liberty (imprisoned despite no evidence)
- His reputation (publicly branded as violent)
- Access to his child
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs
- And, by his own account, his mental wellbeing
False accusations aren't rare. They cannot be dismissed. And when they occur, the consequences are devastating...
They overwhelmingly impact men, particularly in contexts like family law and domestic violence allegations, where:
- Immediate action is often taken on accusation alone
- Due process is unacceptably delayed
- Social stigma is immediate and severe
Research globally has shown that even when allegations are disproven, the damage is rarely undone: reputational harm, mental health decline, and family separation often persist. Hugely damaging for children involved.
We need a system that:
=> Takes all allegations seriously
=> But also tests evidence rigorously and quickly
=> Protects genuine victims
=> And safeguards against wrongful accusation and prosecution
Justice must be both compassionate and careful.
Because when the system gets it wrong (as it clearly did here in Canberra), the consequences are life-altering...
And the damage is entirely preventable.