Crime Analyst S Laura Richards Tells Us The No 1 Sign Someone Is A Victim Of Coercive Control
Why emotional abuse is so hard to spot fizkes/Shutterstock Domestic abuse is often only taken seriously after it’s too late to save a life. In the case of Gabby Petito, experts believe the Moab Police Department had an opportunity to prevent her murder if the officers had been properly trained to spot signs of coercive control, a dangerous form of emotional abuse. Dr. Ziv Cohen, a forensic psychiatrist with Cornell University, told People that Petito’s behavior shown in the police body cam footage seemed “to fit the profile of a domestic abuse situation....