Baltimore City Clerk of Court publicly questions lack of support for male DV victims

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'The Baltimore City Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team had good news and bad news for criminal justice leaders Wednesday during its annual report, trumpeting a significant drop in homicides but bemoaning slow progress on policy recommendations the team made in past years.

“The number of domestic violence homicides is plummeting,” declared Julie Drake, chief of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Felony Family Violence Division and vice chair of the team, which is a committee of the city’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.
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Baltimore City Clerk of Court Frank M. Conaway Sr., who often asks pointed questions of the police commissioner, echoed his concern of previous years that the presenters and their offices focused on battered women to the exclusion of male victims.

Drake conceded that men can be too embarrassed to seek help; but if they do, she said, their cases are treated just like women’s. Lennig said the same is true at the House of Ruth, although battered men are placed in hotels whereas women, who constitute the vast majority of the clientele, share a communal space on site.

“I think there should be a House of John because men get beaten, too,” Conaway said after the meeting.'