It is imperative to document any form of abuse, pushing, hitting, stalking, grabbing, restraining, threatening etc. If it isn’t written down, the court does not consider a reported event legitimate and witness testimonies become a pallid game of he said she said.

And if the abuser is a senator…..

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/nyregion/25monserrate.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

he can make a really really bad excuse:  ”I slipped and fell and the glass broke on her face”. Right, and that’s why you didn’t go with her to the emergency room eh?

Most victims are too scared to document at the time of an abuse event and have often been manipulated into believing that they deserved the abuse. This makes it even more important for anyone who hears the story to WRITE IT DOWN and date it. Send yourself an email, or send it in a letter to your grandmother. Whatever you do, make sure that you document any report of abuse. Otherwise, the lack of documentation will be used as a mockery of the victim’s testimony.