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THE EVIDENTIARY ABUSE AFFIDAVIT

empowering victims to securely document their experiences.

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Create Your Plan. Protect Your Future.

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I am here because:

Current responses do not always help a victim to document their situations and specifics of the abuse or the abuser. Outside of a police report or restraining order, documentation has still not occurred. In case of future serious injury, a victim goes missing or is killed, nothing exists to link them to their experiences.

The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit changes this!

Abuse victims are often told:

  • Action is only taken if you can show evidence.

  • IF there is a shelter available and IF they have room for you, your children, and pets.

  • Usually only granted if there is evidence of the abuse and/or danger.

  • Leave behind your career, family, friends and assets.

  • IF there is someone who can be fully trusted.

  • Stalking laws are often weak, poorly defined, and not enforced.

Norma Peterson, Executive Director of Document the Abuse speaks with Dateline NBC about the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit.

Check out our FAQs to learn more about how to stay safe.

Hear from those who have experience.

Victims, family members, law enforcement and other professionals.

  • Denise Brown

    My sister Nicole’s story reminds us what happens when the danger is real but the evidence is scattered. Nicole’s diaries and journals weren’t admissible in court. The EAA is a digital diary It is in your voice, preserved — so that your truth can be acted upon. It makes sure it cannot be erased or ignored.

  • Robert Berlin, Dupage County States Attorney

    The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit, presented by Norma Peterson, is a simple but effective way for survivors to document abuse in a way that protects. survivors while creating a record that can be used by law enforcement and prosecutors to hold offenders responsible. 

  • Lorraine Francis Tipton

    I would not be standing today without Document the Abuse and the lifesaving blueprint Susan Murphy Milano left behind. Her Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit gave me a structure when the system gave me silence. It showed me how to document the truth in a way that couldn’t be ignored—even when the courts tried. I used it. I lived it. And now I teach it.

If you are a victims advocate and are frustrated with the same check the box training….

Take a minute to consider our Advocate Training Program

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