Conor Pall never wanted to live with a man he calls ‘The Shadow’. But he was forced to. In this episode of There’s No Place Like Home: After she leaves, Tara Rae Moss shares Conor’s story and investigates how perpetrators are able to weaponise systems after victim-survivors escape from them - legal, financial or otherwise.

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Sources: 

1. Systems abuse is most common post-separation: Monash University. (2018). Systems abuse most often takes place post-separation. Retrieved from https://arts.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/1529852/rb-systems-abuse.pdf
2. Victim-survivors of domestic violence have 14 times the legal needs of the rest of the population: Australian Lawyers Alliance. (2022). Systems abuse and family law: Understanding the impact. Retrieved from https://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/PrecedentAULA/2022/29.pdf
3. Judith Hermann on how the legal system can be retraumatising for victim-survivors: Stark, E. (2004). Insidious entrapment: Domestic violence and the reform of child welfare. Women & Therapy, 27(3–4), 133–150. Retrieved from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16043563/
4. Australian Institute of Family Studies. (2015). Children's exposure to domestic and family violence. Retrieved from https://aifs.gov.au/resources/policy-and-practice-papers/childrens-exposure-domestic-and-family-violence