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Coercive control inquiry hears harrowing accounts of shame, humiliation and abuse
Of the 100 plus submissions put forward to the NSW Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control, it is the personal stories that are most harrowing.
Key points:
- The three-day inquiry will explore the introduction of new coercive control legislation in NSW
- Behaviours can range from controlling money and withholding children, to physical violence and murder
- England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland have all made coercive control a criminal offence
“Some time ago, my kind and gentle friend was brutally murdered by her husband,” reads one submission.
“His final act of control was his first of physical violence. My friend had been subjected to years of what I now identify as coercive control.”
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