Chloe was cross-examined by her alleged DV perpetrator for hours in WA. Advocates say it has to stop
Western Australia has the second-highest rate of family domestic violence in the country – yet it’s almost always up to the victim to get a restraining order
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Halfway through the fifth hour of Chloe’s* cross-examination by the ex-partner she accused of domestic violence, the Western Australian woman could no longer take it.
“The only thing I could think to do was silently mouth to the magistrate ‘please stop’,” she says.
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