250,000 women are reported missing every year in america. Over 75% of reported abduction or kidnapping cases in the United States are women. in 2024-198,686 of those cases involved girls under the age of 21, while 63,584 of those cases were women over the age of 21. missing Women face the highest risk of torture, rape and murder worldwide.
Medical gaslighting-also known as victim silencing, "being told it's all in your head"
Women are referred to mental health professionals 4 times more often than men. An approximate 30% are misdiagnosed. The following true story from a woman in Florida is an example of "medical gaslighting." Medical gaslighting is frequently and unlawfully used as a form of "Coercive Control" over women in the United States;
Betty, filed for a divorce from her abusive husband, who after the birth of their newborn appeared to be abusing alcohol and illicit drugs. He had shoved her backwards into the baby's bassinet with the baby sleeping soundly inside it. Betty did what any sane, nurturing parent would do, told him to pack his bags and leave immediately, called the sheriff, then went to the 18th judicial circuit courthouse in Broward County Florida to file for a protection order and subsequently, a divorce based on grounds of domestic violence. 2 weeks later the sheriff knocked on Betty's apartment door, alleging they had received notification that Betty was alleged to be suffering from a mental health disorder.
As the investigation into Betty's mental health ensued, which included a referral into the juvenile court on grounds of dependency and determining whether or not Betty was a fit parent, and in spite of a court order for protection from the abuser, Betty received several text messages from her estranged spouse threatening the kidnapping of the infant, and of removing it from the state so that she would never see it again. She immediately called the sheriff and the FBI, only to be told that they would not take action until he actually carried the crimes out. The court refused to prosecute the violations of the protection order which allegedly strictly prohibited all contact and harassment from the abuser.
Betty later learned that the mental health allegations had come from the soon to be ex-husband, who coincidentally also worked for the local law enforcement agency. The soon to be ex appeared in the juvenile court having been brought discreetly up the stairway normally reserved for judges. She was ordered to attend a mandatory psychiatric evaluation inside a locked facility, while the court ordered her to place the child in a childcare facility for at least 40 hours a week (otherwise known as a form of institutionalizing children, "a way to get them forced into a system they will never find their way out of.)"
Betty reported only the truth to the mental healthcare practitioner "my husband abused me and the baby, he abuses alcohol and drugs, is frequently physically violent, and has repeatedly abandoned me and left me without shelter, food, transportation or money." She reported no personal symptoms of depression, had no history of substance abuse, no criminal and no psychiatric history. The soon to be ex on the other hand, did have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and a criminal history, in the few years preceding the child's birth he had been arrested and charged with domestic violence. The court ignored Betty's testimony that her husband was abusing alcohol and was suspected to be using cocaine-as she reported he had attempted to persuade her to use it shortly after the birth of the infant. That mental health care provider, none-the-less falsely reported that Betty was diagnosed with a mental health disorder and made the recommendation to the court that the child should be taken from his breastfeeding mother.
Issues, abuse and discrimination affecting women don't always only affect women, they commonly affect men during childhood, in Betty's case her child is a boy. She was granted court supervised custody of the breastfeeding infant, which included the continuance of allegations of mental health disorders and frequent unsubstantiated claims from the father of the same. When Betty sought an order for child support, the court granted the father unsupervised weekend visits with the now toddler, despite Betty's screams for help and extreme concern that the father abused drugs, alcohol and was known to use the services of paid sex workers. She repeatedly demanded that the court, and Judge Stacy Schulman "test the father for illicit substances." The court refused to order the ex for drug and alcohol testing, the father appeared for his first weekend visitation, and upon the child's return after just one weekend visit the child had signs of a traumatic head injury, appeared to have been exposed to illicit drug use, and was acting out proof he had obviously witnessed his father engage with sex workers.
The court took no action, the father suddenly stopped appearing for visitation and over the following 7 years, this same court refused to enforce a court order for child support, while the father refused to engage in his court ordered visits and the court refused to uphold the child's rights to be free from repeat abandonment or to terminate the father's parental rights.
“CRAZY!” Fake mental health diagnoses as a way of silencing victims of child sex offenders!
Mary courageously walked into the local hospital she had received emergency care from throughout childhood, chin held high, absolutely confident she was doing ”the right thing.” Standing at the front desk she bravely looked the receptionist in the eyes “I need to report a child sex offender, my uncle who works here at your hospital, he works on the fourth floor, the mental health floor.” “He started raping me when I was 6 years old, and continued until I was 13!"
How was Mary to suspect she herself would end up confined to the locked ward the offender had worked in for the last 2 decades, and that no one would take a single step to attend to the criminal's history of violent child sex offenses?
Mary now stood accused of suffering from "schizophrenia" as punishment for reporting a dangerous child sex offender who was also known to use and abuse illicit drugs.3 decades later, still no justice has been served, no criminal prosecutions have ever been attempted by law enforcement, the hospital has continued to employ him in his position with “no questions asked.” To date there has been no legal recourse for the victim, who 3 years later filed a lawsuit against the violent child sex predator in a Federal District Court. The Federal court judge responded by dismissing the case without a hearing and without a trial, adjudged that Mary’s lawsuit was a form of "harassment of the defendant” that the claim was "frivolous" and prohibited Mary from filing any case in the Federal District Court going forward. STILL, no one took a single step to investigate, prosecute, or prevent the predator from continuing his violent child sex crime spree.The dramatic effect of being subjected to violent child sexual abuse would never be resolved-the decades of sleep loss, the effect on her relationships with men, the effect it had on her grades, employment, financial stability, and the deeply instilled shame she carried everywhere she went. Instead, Mary would find herself battling false mental health diagnoses intended as a form of victim silencing by the offender's employer and coworkers. Among those false labels-narcissist, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and a mandatory order for medication and ongoing mental health care. The worst part-she eventually believed what these “doctors and nurses” were telling her.
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"It's All In Your Head"
My mother came up missing in 1996. Prior to her disappearance, I witnessed the doctors telling her what she was experiencing was “all in her head.”
He was known to Ohio’s law enforcement to be a violent serial child rapist/killer, there were multiple victims in his path, myself included. His films show him raping, stabbing, killing and dumping the bodies of multiple toddlers, myself included. He is clearly identifiable in the countless photos and videos he produced, yet he never saw a day behind bars, never stood in a courtroom facing criminal charges, and in fact was given specific access to the city's impoverished and disabled children in a closed and locked facility.
The day his wife confronted him with the films she had discovered-he put her in a coma in the ICU for an entire year with traumatic brain injuries. The children they shared witnessed all of it, and were put up for adoption by the state, but still, the predator (whose child porn films were now in the possession of police, and the state) was never arrested, never investigated, never charged with a single crime. For 50 years he remained on the lam, raping and killing over and over again in his multiple state violent child sex crime/murder spree. Most recently, his new daughter with his new wife was taken away by the state and placed into a group home for the developmentally delayed after reporting he had raped her, AFTER he had killed his new wife as she slept.
On the other hand, my mother only knew my father was cheating on her, he had made a game of making googly eyes at every pretty woman that passed by. Employed by the state prison for the criminally insane as a psychiatric assistant, AND as an officer in the United States military, he worked directly under the lead psychiatrist. My mother's frustration turned into an eating disorder in her struggle to starve herself enough to be perfect and loved by my father. The eating disorder turned into alcoholism, and the most severe form of child abuse imaginable-holding loaded guns to my face, third degree burns, beating me unconscious multiple times a day, and depriving me of food, water, and the comfort of family members or friends.
Instead of upholding the law, instead of removing the offending parent from the household, instead of formal arrest and criminal gun violence attempted murder charges, my father and his employers subjected my mother to what is legally defined as “torture.” They told her she was going to quit smoking hypnosis, as at the time she was up to 4 packs a day. When she returned, she suddenly began having “seizures” at every slight emotional upset-she would lose control of the entire left side of her body, her head shook so violently she was forced to wear a neck brace for the rest of her entire life, she was left unable to speak, would lose control of her bowels and bladder and begin violently vomiting-disabilities that left her permanently disabled for the rest of her life. I witnessed all of the doctors she visited telling her “it’s all in your head.” They sent her home and forced me under threats of murder, to provide around the clock care for her, while she continued to violently abuse me. I witnessed all of the doctors she visited telling her “it’s all in your head.” I was forced to provide care for her under threats of murder from the age of 6 through 20, when I finally moved away. My mother mysteriously came up “missing” in January 1996.
With an entire state prison full of convicted violent felons, not one of them had been subjected to the form of capital punishment my father and his employers subjected my mother to. She never even had a trial. On the other hand, the violent child serial killer never saw a day in court, and lived 1 block from 2 schools, while his 50 years of steady employment routinely gave the predator open access to other people's children.
I ask you, where is the logic in this?
"there is great danger in the fact that your victims records can be solicited and traded interstate between law enforcement agencies"
Lisa had very little reason to recall all of the moments of her childhood. At the age of 25 her days and nights had been full of new experiences, new people and places, filling up all of the memory spaces she had with brand new memories. Imagine her surprise to learn she also had no memory, of having been the victim of dozens of child pornography films, and how would she ever have guessed that what had just happened to her, happened because the police records of her having been the victim of those dozens of child porn films were being traded (without valid legal cause or warrants) interstate between numerous big city law enforcement and intelligence agencies not even remotely involved in any of the investigations. As a matter of fact their had never been any investigation into the matter and noone was prosecuted.
What had just happened to her? She had met a new friend and agreed to go and watch him perform in concert with his band. She had one beer, and found herself unconscious (drugged with rohypnol) being carried to a taxi and driven to a remote location where a group of at least 25 men were waiting in line to take their turn on her.
If YOU or someone you know has ever been a victim of rape or violent child/sex crimes, you need to know that your victims records are available to other law enforcement agencies and their individual employees all across the country and as in Lisa's case making YOU or the victim a prime target for furtherance of the original crimes including but not limited to "Domestic Terrorism."
In the rohypnol/kidnapping gang rape case, Jane filed a criminal complaint, and was told by the D.A. that it was "her fault for being there." (There, in a public place, with "friends, watching a concert in blue jeans, t-shirt and a sweatshirt, drinking a single beer.)