In Maine, It Doesn’t Pay to be a Man
Practically everyone in town knows Amy Dugas is a serial batterer. But the Maine criminal justice system keeps finding ways to keep her from facing the music.
In 2004 Amy assaulted her husband Mark in their home in Waldoboro. When the police officer came to arrest her, she kicked him in the groin. The judge released her on bail, ordering her to refrain from using weapons. Four months later she stabbed Mark with a foot-long kitchen knife, fatally severing his pulmonary artery. At the trial, she got away with the trusty I-feared-for-my-life alibi.
Two years later Dugas spent 125 days in jail following an attack on a male friend. In 2007 she was arrested again, this time for assaulting Brian Pelletier, her new husband of three weeks.
Each time, Amy Dugas was let off the hook with a chivalrous slap on the wrist, even though many were demanding she do hard time at the state pen.
No doubt about it, Maine’s domestic violence industry has friends in high places. One of them is Mary Kellett, Assistant District Attorney for the Bar Harbor area. Think of her as Michael Nifong on steroids.
Inspired by feminist Catherine Comins’ sneer, “Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience,” Kellett has taken to prosecuting every allegation of sexual misconduct, often ignoring glaring inconsistencies in the woman’s account or clear evidence of consensual activity: http://www.fillerfund.com/marykellett.htm
In one case, Kellett summed up the case to the jury with this comment, “there has been no evidence presented to you as the jury that would suggest that a sexual act hadn’t occurred on those dates,” revealing a sad ignorance of the legal principle that the burden of proof falls on the plaintiff.
In another trial, Kellett did not present a shred of physical evidence, prompting the defense attorney to comment, “We were just very surprised with the only evidence the state had, that they brought these charges at all.”
Unfortunately for her prosecutorial victims, none of them play lacrosse at an exclusive university or have wealthy parents to hire high-powered attorneys. As a result, many have spent months in jail awaiting their trial.
It gets worse.
Maine now has a law enforcement policy that says in effect if a woman punches the living daylights out of her husband, somehow it must be the man’s fault. “Identifying Predominant Aggressors in Domestic Violence Cases” is a training guide put together by the Maine Criminal Justice Academy: http://www.maine.gov/dps/mcja/docs/Mandatory-Law/Predominant%20Aggressor.doc
A little background: It is well known that many domestic violence incidents are mutual in nature – she slaps him, he shoves back. One study by Centers for Disease Control researcher Daniel Whitaker reported fully half of all incidents of partner aggression are mutual. More often than not, it’s the woman who instigated the incident.
So when the police arrive on the scene, they need to decide who to stick in the Paddy Wagon. For years, police used the commonsense yardstick, Who started the fight? But feminists don’t cotton to that approach because, truth be told, too many women were getting arrested.
So they reached into their bag of tricks and – abracadabra! “Predominant aggressor” magically appeared in the law enforcement lexicon. Any guesses who the predominant aggressor might be?
Before I give away the punch line, you may want to see for yourself the Ms.-Information that the Predominant Aggressor curriculum bandies around:
1. The idea that abuse can be mutual is a “misconception” (I say so, it must be true.)
2. “DV is the leading cause of injuries to women between the ages of 15-44 in the U.S.” (It’s also a proven fact that the moon is made of Swiss cheese and the 9/11 attacks were masterminded by the CIA.)
3. Even if the violence is mutual, it’s bad to arrest both parties because the “batterer gains more power.” (Don’t ask to see the research. I’m the one with the mic and I’ll give you the boot if you start to ask questions.)
Then the curriculum goes on to enumerate the types of violence that it whimsically classifies as defensive:
1. Face scratches
2. Eye gouges
3. Bites to arm
Go ahead, ladies, scratch his face and gouge his eyes out. You can always say it was in self-defense — and now they’ll have to take you at your word.
Patrick Henry College professor Stephen Baskerville has recently issued a stunning indictment of our contemporary criminal justice system, lambasting it as a “Feminist Gulag.” Now in Maine, a man can be killed in cold blood without consequence to the perpetrator, prosecuted for rape with the flimsiest of evidence, or framed in a partner dispute on account of his sex.
And whatever happened to the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution?
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I appreciate the investigative reporting. The frequency of stories like this seems to be increasing daily. In response, I’ve gone ghost. Welcome to Amerika.
you all need to move to more not so femanatzi type of state marry non crazy us females I live in Alaska and and have a asian wife 9 years no b.s.
Mainely Misandry,
The situation in the State of Maine is beginning to seem like Stephen King’s horror story. Stephen King was born in Maine (Wikipedia). The link to video you provided stopped playing when a picture appeared.
What happended since a Michigan woman in 1977 poured gasoline into her ex-husband’s bed and set it on fire and told officials “I did it all”. A lawyer reportedly told her, do you want spent rest of your life in prison. Soon the feminist got inot action and she became a victim and a movie “Burning Bed” was made to propagandize and perpetuate killer women as vicitms. Link to her story: People Magazine.
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20088845,00.html
Mr.K,
Recently a local woman shot her husband in the head with her gun, twice, while he slept. She even pled guilty. Without any proof, the local feminists’ PR machine kicked in and accused her husband of being an abuser, enjoying pornography and Nazi memorabilia, and being a wannabe terrorist. It’s not clear if or how exactly he abused his murderer, but inflammatory slander dominated all the media reports. Many people, who never heard of this couple, began voicing their sympathy for the wife and thanking her for killing him for the good of society. Walking free out of the courthouse, surrounded by an army of local women’s advocates, the murderer declared that nowhere but Maine could she have made out so well. She is free enjoying her husband’s fortune and custody of their little girl.
While men who may not even be violent but suffer emotionally get driven to hang themselves in their jail cell; violent and abusive woman are treated like victims rather than criminals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsKIcQhjaJg
That is radical feminism at work from high places, and I believe it is getting worse.
It’s not just women getting off by shedding crocodile tears and claiming abuse; women are not even getting arrested or charged for crimes. As this article suggests, in Maine, violent crimes by females are being kept off the radar. To borrow the feminist’s own logic, Amy Dugas didn’t first become an abuser when she killed her first husband. The system looks the other way, and now, its much worse, because it points the finger away from the female abuser and directly at the male victim instead. That is the essence of the predominant aggressor laws in Maine which are only a bench mark for more laws that are being suggested.
I believe it will keep getting worse in Maine and elsewhere.
@ Mr. K,
No men are being put down with less regard than to violent animals. When a violent animal attacks the SPCA wants to know if you, the owner, was abusing the animal.
In our country men can be put down with no proof.
This is really happening. Any woman, any time, can just kill you and, even if you have witnesses, she will suffer not a day in jail and be lauded as a hero in the local paper.
Women don’t want us stinky men using the same facilitie as women. It’s that back of the bus, train whatever for us.
Or incarcerated for being of no further use to their overlords. How is this different than how blacks were treated during slavery? Can’t till the fields, what use are you, to the shed, locked up and, now that your a felon, lost your right to vote as well.
How long till we need an underground railroad to help men escape their enslavement in this country?
I think things have gone farther than we think, they have been 20 years ahead of us in law and culture for the last 80 years.
I won’t committ suicide either, put me down for a fight.
Mainely Misandry and Paul R.
Your comments are testimony how far the DV feminist advocates have pushed the system. Now a man who has lost everything can be killed like a mad dog and the media applauds.
The trend began years ago when former Governor of Ohio granted clemency to women prisoners who had suffered sc. “battered spouse”
syndrome. Other states soon followed. Link
http://www.feminist.com/news/news41.html
Quote:
“Attorneys and activists began working with convicted women to reduce or negate their sentences. Clemency began to be granted sporadically in the 1980s, and the movement peaked in 1990 when outgoing Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste freed 25 women, declaring they had not had the opportunity for fair trials because testimony about the violence in their homes was not presented during their trials.
The following year Gov. Donald Schaefer of Maryland commuted eight sentences. On Valentine’s Day 1992, eight petitions were submitted to Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, who eventually freed all but one. In California, 34 inmates filed petitions in 1992 asking then-Gov. Pete Wilson for clemency; three received it.
By 1995, 12 states had enacted statutes providing for the admissibility of expert testimony on battering and its effects.”
@ Ken:
Why are women permitted to vote?
Surely not in the name of the very equality that women’s groups lobby so viciously to deny to men.
Dear Mr. Roberts,
Thank you for this great article. There is a Witch Hunt in the Bar Harbor region and just as the Salem Witch trials not one single local newspaper has uttered a single word about it, or the numerous men who have been destroyed in its wake. Thank God for people like you and Men’s News Daily for exposing the criminals who are violating fundamental Civil and Constitutional Rights of men in Maine.
This won’t ever stop until men up the anti. Trust me. If my children were taken from me by a lying wife. If I ended up in jail because a feminist DA and safe house women “set me up” I wouldn’t be one of those men who “offed” himself.
Again, rape is nothing compared to losing your children, or getting incarcerated for crimes you didn’t commit. And as long as feminist don’t have to pay for the crimes they commit, while men pay for crimes they didn’t commit, and the judiciary doesn’t intervene, what’s left? Whining, suicide, or warfare. First choices haven’t worked out so far.
SD
Carey Roberts, you’re a great investigative writer. You covered the details of Amirault “witch hunt’ which kept Martha Coakley from going to Congress, but she’s still the Attorney General of Massachusetts.
Now you exposed the skeletons in the closet of Bar Harbor, Maine. Once the summer resort for rich and famous of the Gilded Age, now fallen on hard times and having prosecutor analogous to Mike Nifong.
Having visited Bar Harbor couple of times, it seemed as tranquil ( the name reportedly derives from a low tide exposing a sand bar twice a day to a nearby island) visitors would not know what lurks behind the facade of Bar Harbor
Great article.
Maine is the most matriarchic state in the nation, and the Bar Harbor region is ground zero for radical feminism. Whether a female premeditates and murders her husband, stabs her boyfriend with a knife in a jealous rage, or drives drunk and kills a man, there is the highest likelihood that she will never really be prosecuted or get prison time in Maine.
If you are a man and a woman accuses you of anything, and I mean anything, you will be arrested, tried, and convicted. You will probably lose everything in the process…your home, your reputation, your mind, and maybe even your life.
Recently, a man was charged with a protection order violation for leaving a cell phone message for his estranged wife. There was no indication that he was violent or dangerous. He was suffered from depression (a big no no for men to have feelings of pain), and jail was the state’s treatment. At his arraignment he ran out of the courthouse. He tried to take someone’s car but a 19 year old woman beat him up and he ran away (some tough dangerous criminal he is). He was caught and Mary Kellett’s office immediately threw the book at him with the charges of escape, kidnapping, terrorizing, robbery and theft. He was lucky not to be charged with gross sexaul assualt for being beat up by the woman.
No one in that DA’s office cared that he was just a very scared man in a lot of pain who needed his medication and wasn’t trying to hurt anyone. He was just a man who dared leave a message on his wife’s phone, and now he was facing charges fit for an Al-Qaeda operative. He committed suicide that night in his jail cell just a few hundred feet from Mary Kellett’s office. The 19 year old woman who beat him up was hailed by local press as a hero for her girl power.
Men’s lives, rights, dignity and feelings have all become irrelevant and disposable, and in few places that message is made louder and clearer than in the Maine’s Bar Harbor region.
A Colorado case set a troubling precedent. The DA dismissed murder charges against Ann Tatum because of the victim’s “past and present violence.” The present violence apparently occurred on the night of the murder. Ann had gone to confront her husband Jim about his alleged affair with another woman–and she went carrying a loaded pistol in her purse, a pistol she eventually emptied into her husband. Allegedly, he became violent at some point, which the DA contended was another example of Jim’s violence, even though Jim had never been convicted of DV in the past nor had Ann (or any other woman) filed any charges against him. The evidence of his past violence consisted of Ann’s statements and some rumors, rumors that suggested both Jim and Ann could be violent to each other.
It’s possible, I suppose, Jim simply became violent in the course of the couple’s argument about the affair. It’s also possible that Ann pulled the gun from her purse and threatened to kill Jim, at which point he became violent as a form of self-defense. The only witness to what happened was Ann. Another witness claims he was knocked unconscious when the murder happened–and he was the husband of the woman with whom Jim was having the affair.
The troubling legal conclusion is this: if a woman pulls a gun on a man and threatens to shoot him and he fights back, even in self-defense, he is guilty of domestic violence. And because he’s guilty of DV, she’s within her rights to kill him. And, of course, if he doesn’t fight back, she’ll kill him anyway and claim he did fight back. Either way, he’s dead and she gets off scot-free.
If this story doesn’t make you want to scream, nothing will. Thanks, Mr. Roberts, for exposing this female psychopath, and for writing about Dugas as well.
rohara 2010-02-01 at 5:09 am: “…feminism is about gender domination and not about gender equality.”
Exactly. As long as feminists have access to power equality and fairness will never happen, and shouldn’t be the goal. Feminists are driven by hatred and conceit, and are not capable of fairness. They will not be satisfied until they completely dominate and oppress men. For this reason, and for the sake of women and children, men must strive for dominance and control of society and all of its institutions. Unless men are in control, men will be oppressed; and the women and children who love them will suffer too. Feminist bigots won’t have it any other way.
I go up to Portland Maine regularly – I have extended family up there. Last time I visited there was a big DV fund raising even being promoted – flyers were placed even at restaurant entry ways. I read a flyer and it appeared that even though the majority of the millions of dollars were coming from the government it was made to look like the DV advocates were grassroot cahs strapped and needed desperate help.
The aim of the fundraising was to build a lavish residence for women “fleeing” domestic violence. Which makes no sense to me as men get put away for violence and must remain away from home on allegation alone?
The facility was to keep women and children off the street (the only significant homeless population in Portland are men). Free housing, education, job placement, health matters and of course the backing of the police and the feminist hate machine DV industry. It looked like it was a place to give women, and only women, a leg up on things if in hardship. The only entrance criteria, is to claim victimhood by a man,
I do not know if it got built, but I assume it was. Maine is very much a feminist state…I am not surprised that Amy Dugas got away with what she did. Consider the TWO female senators who vote liberal but belong to the GOP. Men from Maine have no idea what is going on as the media and law is clearly feminist and anti-male.
The 14th Ammendment has become a total joke in the past 40 years when it comes to gender relations. It’s demise is glairing proof that feminism is about gender domination and not about gender equality.
Equal Protection? HA! Welcome to America