Reply to "DV, when the victim gets arrested."

sarah butlerMember

The WA state legal code recognizes this as abusive litigation, though this is more directed to civil court litigation. The description is quite accurate: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/def...1&full=trueLegal Voice has some resources: https://legalvoice.org/abusive-litigation/

I've also heard it referred to as weaponizing the police.

It's one of the many ways that abusers coerce the systems meant to protect victims into supporting the abuse.

If you don't know Jennifer Freyd's work on DARVO, it's worth reading: https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARVO.html

5/3/2311:48 AM

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