Ill try and keep this as concise as possible.
I'm on holiday in Wales staying in a caravan. Last night about 11pm an argument started between a couple in the caravan nearby. I say argument but it was mostly a man shouting.
It quickly escalated and the women was screaming, she sounded terrified, and there were children screaming "mummy" too.
At this point I phone the police. Very quickly the security guards from the site turned up. The woman was sobbing , said she was ok and the security guards quickly left.
As soon as they'd gone the man left the caravan. Moments later the police turned up. They spent some time searching the site but eventually the man was found and arrested.
This morning the women was sat outside the caravan and I went over to check she was ok. She has a broken nose! :( the caravan was a bit messed up too. Several internal doors were off their hinges.
We talked for a while and she told me she'd been asked to leave the holiday park!! I Wa stunned at this but she said she was going to leave anyway as her and the dc didn't want to be there after everything that had happened the night before.
I couldn't stop thinking about her being told to leave and later that day I went to speak to the general manager of the site.
He confirmed that yes she had been asked to leaved because they had a zero tolerance policy on violent behaviour.
I pointed out to him that it was the man who had been violent, he'd assaulted the women, she is basically being punished for being the victim of a crime and by asking her to leave they were implying that she was in some way to blame for the mans behaviour.
We talked about it for quite a while and I tried several different ways to get my point across. To be fair he did really listen to me and tried to understand but basically he didn't get it.
He also trotted out the usually ill informed stereo types "women like that never want to press charges" etc.
I'm so angry. In one way does it really matter because she wanted to go home anyway?
But on the other hand if we don't challenge such ignorant attitudes towards domestic violence then nothing is ever going to change. I feel like I want to do something to make the holiday park realise how wrong their attitude is.
Sorry if this is a bit jumbled. Trying to keep it as short as possible.
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ClementineKelandra · 17/07/2013 18:49
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