Child Abuse and Domestic Violence in Seattle
Attorneys Defending Seattle Residents Against Criminal Charges
Sometimes family relationships become strained, and violence erupts. In certain instances, both people are violent, while in other situations, one person is aggressive or violent towards the other. Unfortunately, there are situations in which children are injured by a parent or other adult. Child abuse and domestic violence are serious allegations to face, and can alter your family’s future. If you are concerned about child abuse and domestic violence charges, it is advisable to consult a firm that has experience with both criminal defense and family law matters. The Seattle domestic violence lawyers at Blair Kim Moeller, PLLC can bring perspective from both of these areas of law when representing defendants in the criminal justice system in both felony and misdemeanor cases.
Child Abuse and Domestic Violence
Domestic violence can include physically violent acts, economic exploitation or abuse, neglect, emotional abuse, and sexual assault. In Washington, domestic violence includes many different crimes in which the victim and perpetrator have a certain relationship. The relationship that turns a crime into domestic violence is a family or household member relationship between the victim and the perpetrator. Crimes that may be domestic violence where this relationship exists include reckless endangerment, murder or manslaughter, assault, burglary, kidnapping, rape, stalking, cyberstalking, false imprisonment, interfering with reporting of domestic violence, and violation of a protection order.
By law, a police officer who responds to a domestic violence call must make an arrest if he or she has probable cause to believe an assault or other significant domestic violence offense was perpetrated in the prior four hours. When the officer thinks it is a mutual assault between family or household members, she is supposed to arrest whichever person she thinks is the primary aggressor in the altercation. Under Washington law, officers are required to arrest for violations of civil protection orders or no contact orders as well.
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