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June 2008
Executive Director comments on new law expanding orders of protection to dating relationships
06/30/2008
Executive Director Stephanie Nilva shared her thoughts on the impact of the just-passed state law expanding civil orders of protection to unrelated victims abused in "dating relationships."
"This will make a world of difference for our teen clients. I'm ecstatic." She added that young people who have been bruised, threatened and sexually or physically assaulted show up daily in her office, intimidated by the idea of going to police or facing their abusers in criminal court. They just want the abuser stopped.
Read the whole article "Unmarried abuse victims get civil aid" on the New York Daily News website.
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Executive Director adds her voice to debate around granting people in dating relationships access to orders of protection
06/17/2008
Executive Director Stephanie Nilva gave the facts about the need for and impact of making an order of protection available to people in dating relationships:
"Teens are experiencing the same rates of rape and domestic violence as adults, so they should have access to the same types of protections." According to Stephanie, teens "show up in our office bruised, their lives threatened, knives held to their throats, sexually assaulted, hospitalized and all we can tell them is the only system available is the criminal system, which they're not willing to use and which is far more challenging to navigate and less likely to succeed." And while opponents argued the protection orders would further weigh down the city's overburdened family courts, Stephanie countered that Delaware, which passed a fair access law last year, only saw a 3% rise in cases.
Read the whole article "Law would force civil courts to help abused teens" on the New York Daily News website.
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