When Doing Good Provides Cover
We are taught to trust people who do good. The fundraiser. The volunteer. The philanthropist. The person who gives years of their life to a charitable cause.
Articles
Financial abuse
10 articles on this theme.
Police Have Held the Brush for Too Long While Vulnerable People Were Swept Under the Carpet
The Isle of Man’s role in disrupting major global financial crime should be recognised.
The System Is Designed to Pass Harm Sideways Until the Victim Runs Out of Road
Some people will read that line and know exactly what it means. Before they even get to the second paragraph.
The Parrot Letter Pattern: When a Letter Is Not the Whole Truth
It may say the older person is “of sound mind”. It may accuse one child of interfering, upsetting the family or causing trouble.
She Told Them She Was Afraid. She Told Them Her Money Had Been Stolen. They Closed the Case.
She had recently lost her husband and had been too ill to attend his funeral.
The Smear Campaign: Part 1 – the Abuse Nobody Sees
When people think about coercive control, they often imagine one person controlling another. What they don’t see is something much bigger.
The Predatory Pathway
When people hear the phrase predatory marriage, they often picture an elderly widow being persuaded to marry a much younger person shortly before her death.
Social Media, AI and Vulnerability Harvesting: The New Hunting Ground for Predators
For years, many people understood online fraud through the language of romance scams. A stranger would build trust, create emotional dependence, then ask for money.
When Justice Cannot See the Crime
Across the UK and the Isle of Man, the law recognises offences such as domestic abuse, coercive control, fraud and financial exploitation of vulnerable people.
When abuse doesn’t look like abuse, until it’s too late
I want to talk about a friend who died in 2008, aged just 47. She was bright, funny, clever, a nurse, a devoted mum.