Washington DV Press

What is a False Allegation Worth? Join our July 22 Lobbying Effort The Violence Against Women Act spends $444 million each year. And VAWA-funded programs cause about 2 million false allegations. So each false DV allegation costs the American taxpayer $222 annually. And now, President Obama is proposing to increase VAWA funding by a whopping $130 million! See: [...]

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010 By Abusegate Bob Americans Spend One-Half Billion Dollars Each Year to Defend Against False Allegations of Domestic Violence Ever wonder how much money Americans spend to defend themselves against false and trivial claims of domestic violence? Here’s the answer, based on conservative assumptions: 1. Number of persons named each year in [...]

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To all of the good men out there who are still there for their sons and daughters, even after going through what they’ve been through. I know of many fathers out there enjoying visitation on this Fathers Day, under the “guidance” of some “supervisor”, which in turn, charge them money for this “privilege”. I personally [...]

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WADVPress would like to thank all of those who have reached out to us over the past three years, and during  this past week. With your help, we can truly make this a safer system for true victims out there and help to  create stronger evidence standards for the false allegations that are abundant in [...]

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This past week, one of many complaints lodged against Doug Bartholomew came to a close. Despite the loose statutes and past history of selective enforcement of these minimum standards of WAC 388-60, The DSHS found Mr. Bartholomew behaved in a manner that placed DV victims  at risk. The evidence revealed that Doug Bartholomew had been [...]

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May 31st, 2010 The DSHS Certification Expired for Bartholomew and Associates (aka Doug Bartholomew and Associates). DSHS Supervisor Meri Waterhouse confirmed last Thursday that DSHS will NOT renew Bartholomew’s required certification to Provide Domestic Violence Treatment in Washington State. Doug Bartholomew is out of the DV business for the time being, if DSHS follows WAC/RCW’s [...]

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The story from DSHS changes faster than it can reported. Yesterday we broke the news based on information obtained from Meri Waterhouse (DSHS Supervisor at Children’s) that Doug Bartholomew and Associates DVPT Treatment certification was on HOLD and would not be reissued, assuming a literal understanding of this statement it was clear that May 31st, [...]

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