Sanctuary for the Abused

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The Victim's Bill of Rights

YOUR BILL OF RIGHTS

You have the right to be you

You have the right to put yourself first

You have the right to be safe

You have the right to love and be loved

You have the right to be treated with respect

You have the right to be human - not perfect

You have the right to be angry and protest if you are treated unfairly and abusively by anyone

You have the right to your own privacy

You have the right to your own opinions, to express them, and be taken seriously

You have the right to earn and control your own money

You have the right to ask questions about anything that affects your life

You have the right to make decisions that affect you

You have the right to grow and change, this includes changing your mind

You have the right to say no

You have the right to make mistakes

You have the right to not be responsible for other adult's problems

You have the right to not be liked by everyone

You have the right to control your own life and to change it if you are not happy with it as it is

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Labels: anger, bill of rights, opinion, privacy, treatment, victims

shared by Barbara at 12:35 AM

Anonymous said...: I think people often miss the point about what delineates what hate-crimes are. I have a concern about how sexual predators violate others without regard to how those violations have ruined their victims' lives, have imposed destruction of the victim's health, body tissues, spiritual peace with Christ, or the victim's mental health. It seems that family members often protect their own when they know their relatives are violators. The world has come to accept sexual assault as some form of expression that needs to be allowed to be released lest the predator not be accepted by others because of sexuality preferences or sexual orientation. Unfortunately, the focus or trend is the "anything goes". What's worse is how pedophiles or homosexual rapists purport their physical imposition on their victims as something others have to accept as a form of their self-expression—or how the predators purport to feeling discriminated against under their guise as homosexuals if they can't do what they do--which consists of degrading and depriving their victims of their human, civil and U.S. Constitutional rights. Maybe this scenario is more like hatred, vindictiveness, or psychotic on the part of predators. Yet, where are those who will stand up against human trafficking, pedophiles, homosexual pedophiles or rapists? Who is standing up for the victims? Pedophiles affect their victims as had Nazi’s affected their victims—blatant disregard for another human being’s human rights.; 11:05 PM