Aspects of Abuse

People often think that abuse solely entails physical violence, this is not the case, it includes all of the following and more:

• Physical Abuse
• Financial Abuse
• Emotional Abuse
• Sexual Abuse

Physical Abuse

• Punching                                         
• Burning
• Biting                                              
• Stabbing
• Slapping                                          
• Poisoned                                                                                           
• Spitting                                           
• Scalding
• Kicking                                            
• Pinching                                                   
• Throwing objects                              
• Force fed or starved                                 
• Choking you                                    
• Dragged by the hair                   
• Tying you up                                   
• Forced to sleep on the floor                               
• Hurting your children                         
• Not allowed to use sanitary protection
• Pushing downstairs                           
• Not allowed to wash or bathe                
• Locking in or out of house                  
• Not allowed to use the toilet     

Financial Abuse

• Taking your money
• Withholding money                         
• Running up debts in your name
• Checking your receipts                   
• Not allowed to use the telephone

Emotional Abuse

• Mocking
• Threatening you
• Stalking you
• Humiliating you in public                 
• Humiliating your children                  
• Telling lies about you   
• Too fat, too ugly, too thin 
• Telling you that you are stupid  
• Isolating you from family and friends          
• Refusing to let you go out alone        
• Telling you no-one would believe  
• Rubbish as a mother, wife, father, human being

Sexual Abuse

• Forcing you to have sex                        
• Forced prostitution
• Sex in front of others                            
• Sex with other men      
• Sex with other women                         
• Sex with animals   
• Forced to watch or mimic pornography

Further Information

You can obtain further information from the following:

Safer Neighbourhoods Unit,
Yourlink Cramlington,
Council Offices,
Forum Way,
Cramlington
NE23 6YB.

Telephone:
Safer Neighbourhoods Unit Hotline 01670 542060:

RNID Typetalk service prefix number 18001

EMail: snu@blythvalley.gov.uk