“The women become prisoners when the perpetrators go free”
“He lifts the ironing board.”
“Then swing he the with full force against her where she is in bed.”
“She writes: ”I am still a prisoner in the knowledge that I did the right thing as reported, but still is the one who lost it”. “
“Five exclamation mark ends the sentence. It might just as well have been five question marks. Days after the documentary about the Josefin Nilsson has been very much about just that – if questions that require answers.”
“A woman sends an email and writes: ”I refuse to give up, eventually someone will listen!!!!!”.”
“She comes from a bardom of severe abuse and never thought that she would end up there again. So, he came. He was so kind. “
“Until the check took over.”
“the Words were kind. Kind was spottloskor. Power and control ran amok over the life that was her. Now, a year has passed since she broke loose but she is still fighting for its redress. For the freedom that only the judiciary can give.”
“She writes: ”the Memories are welded, left in a fragile inner”.”
“IN the SVT documentary, the one about Josephine, says Josefins sister Marie that she wanted to tell you that it was necessary. ”In order to be free yourself”. For she was convinced that there are so many more who have been exposed to violence in a close relationship.”
“this is just some of them.”
“A woman tells how the police drove her to the emergency room. The arm seemed broken, but it was not bad like ”it first looked like”.”
“It was ”only” a single blodgjutelse.”
“A single blodgjutelse on the forearm she just managed to get up that protection when the man lifted the ironing board and swung it in full force against her where she lay in the bed.”
“She writes: ”He was convicted for the beating. But it was not the first time.””
“When the MeToo are shot in the autumn of 2017 she finds herself at a sheltered accommodation, with blodgjutelsen in the arm and with våldtäktsanmälningar who according to right is not possible to prove. A year and a half later, the man she was married with totally free.”
“”It is I who is prisoner in all the terrible memories that plague. It is I who is the prisoner in the knowledge that I did the right thing as reported, but still is lost in it. He lives his life on, free.”.”
“When the national telephone lists warning signs that a relationship is about to become dangerous, there are physical violence, often with from the beginning. The relationship starts as any other. With love, passion, devotion. “
“It is psychological abuse which then alters everything.”
“Criticism, scrutiny and derogatory comments breaking down the other’s protection and believe in yourself. The emotional band, it is built on love, makes it more difficult to make the resistance or break up.”
“All the different aspects, the emotional band, and the alignment becomes a strategy of survival, makes it extremely difficult for someone to leave a violent relationship.”
“She was on a rutinkoll gynaecologist is now fighting against the fear and the shame.”
“He asked if she gave birth to a child and she said, ”yes, by caesarean section”. Suddenly she understands what he sees. The damage from her previous relationship.”
“She writes: ”Those who know call me brave and say that I have the moral courage which dared to report him. But I don’t feel brave, just scared.””
“And I think about it they write in all the e-mails I have received.”
“the Stories are all different, the relationship with. But they feel all be prisoners as the perpetrators in different ways, go free. Sentenced – or not.”
“Freedom is still theirs.”
“She said, still feeling prisoner at the memory of the violence and the ironing board, concludes his email with: ”So the question you ask is legitimate and important. Where is the society of the women’s redress?”.”
“And as a last sentence, a bit down.”
“‘ Unfortunately, I have no answer.””
