The witness protection programme, which can be used for women and children fleeing domestic violence, requires victims to give up every aspect of their old life. JackieLongC4 has this special report on the ‘brutal’ and ‘traumatic’ cost of safety.
Most often associated with informants or criminals, it’s also used for women and children fleeing domestic violence, who must give up every aspect of their old life – including family in some cases.
Even with help from the programme it can have a devastating psychological impact. This is the story of one woman and her daughter who say more attention must be given to the use of witness protection in domestic abuse…to ask – are the victims paying too high a price for the system’s inability to stop the perpetrators?
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