Survivor from Atlantis

A survivor from Atlantis, who wished to remain anonymous, endured years of abuse at the hands of her partner. She told our researchers that police failed to respond to multiple phone calls, even when she was in immediate danger. In one incident, she had locked herself and her children in a room as he tried to attack them and called the police. To the background noise of her partner trying to kick down the door, the operator refused to send police out to her address.

“This lady asked me, but did he hurt you? And I told her no, he didn’t hurt me yet, but he wants to hurt me. And she told me that to phone back whenever he has hurt me.” Her neighbours also called the police but were told that no one would come to that address because the survivor was wasting their time.

After weeks of attending court on a daily basis, she managed to obtain a protection order, only for her abuser to continually violate it with no consequences. He has never seen the inside of a court room, despite her repeated attempts to file criminal cases. The survivor, however, is not deterred in her fight for justice.