Comment by ThinkBeat

The most common reason violent offenders escape charges or conviction or domestic abuse is that the victim(s) are too afraid to press charges, and/or they feel guilty about it happening or even the feeling that they brought it on themselves and deserved it.

This then combined with the fact that the abuser is going to jail for on unrelated convictions. This is a huge relief to any abuse survivor. The person is going away, and I will be safe.

The other component is all the steps involved with filing charges which will often feel invasive and have to bring it all up again.

I have seen this up close and personal on a few occasions, I have begged the victim to go to the police but they would not do it.

The worst outcome of this is when the abuser is let out, the abuser may seek out the victim again, or the abuser will find new victims.

In this case the police had a call from a close family member accusing the person of domestic abuse. They had suspicious behavior from the accused person. They also witnessed that the possible victim had multiple injuries consistent with domestic abuse. As well as the arm injury the call from the family member had initially reported. But probably no charges or at least no convictions.