Diddy Trial
Why Victims Keep With Abusers …
Psychologist Testifies
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Prosecutors are calling an professional witness within the Diddy trial, a scientific and forensic psychologist who’s telling the jury about why victims keep in abusive relationships, how they cope, the obstacles they face in leaving, and the way their recollections are affected by trauma.
Daybreak Hughes took the stand Wednesday morning because the eleventh witness known as by the feds. Prosecutors are presenting her as an professional witness who focuses on trauma and traumatic stress.
Hughes instructed jurors it is fairly widespread for victims to stay in abusive relationships … explaining there’s all types of mechanisms that make victims really feel trapped, and it isn’t simply reserved to bodily violence.
She testified sexual abuse makes it laborious for victims to depart relationships or search assist … due to the non-public nature of the abuse … she says they typically really feel disgrace, humiliation, degradation and do not wish to discuss it with others, a lot much less give it some thought.
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Funds are one other hurdle, Hughes mentioned on the stand … telling jurors a sufferer who’s financially depending on their abuser may have a more durable time leaving.
Hughes testified it generally takes a number of makes an attempt for victims to lastly depart an abusive relationship … and there is a sample of returning and reconciling. She mentioned some victims really feel they might come again to the great model of their associate, who they nonetheless love.
She instructed the jury “trauma bonds” could type between a sufferer and their abuser … and that may make a sufferer have a troublesome time leaving, as a result of there’s love and kindness hooked up to the abuse.
Hughes testified victims will typically develop coping mechanisms to take care of abuse and should numb themselves with medication and alcohol. She mentioned it’s normal for victims to attend months, and even years, earlier than telling anybody concerning the abuses they suffered.
She instructed the jury victims’ recollections could also be fragmented from trauma … and whereas they bear in mind the gist or core of abuse, they might not recall each particular time or element from once they had been abused.
Diddy protection legal professional Jonathan Bach then started cross-examining Hughes … and he requested her about malingering, and if folks can fabricate emotional responses, and Hughes replied, “They’ll.”
Cassie beforehand testified about bodily abuse she suffered at Diddy’s palms … and she or he instructed the jury she felt trapped within the relationship and that they’d a number of breaks earlier than lastly calling it quits. Others have testified they noticed Diddy abuse her and that Cassie instructed them she could not depart as a result of Diddy managed her music profession and paid for her house, automotive, and gave her an allowance. Prosecutors are utilizing Hughes’ professional testimony to elucidate and contextualize a few of Cassie’s testimony about how she behaved throughout her relationship with Diddy.
Diddy’s protection hasn’t shied away from the home violence tales, however they declare there was DV on each side.
Price noting … Hughes testified the federal government is paying her $600 an hour and she or he’s getting $6,000 for her day in courtroom. She was beforehand employed by Amber Heard within the Johnny Depp trial and is predicted to testify within the Harvey Weinstein retrial, additionally in New York.