If laws are not implemented properly and the judicial system is not transparent, the perpetrators in cases such as Sohair's will continue to go unpunished.
Spouses, former spouses, children, and other family members are the most likely perpetrators in cases of domestic abuse.
Now law enforcement and animal safety experts -- as well as veterinarians, social workers, lawyers, judges and even the FBI -- are working together to redouble their efforts to identify and prosecute perpetrators in cases of animal abuse.
In many cases, victims cannot identify the perpetrators, in which case restitution becomes impossible.
SEEMO's secretary general, Oliver Vujovic, said: "I urge the authorities in Montenegro to do everything in their power to find the perpetrators in the case of Softic and in all past cases that remain unsolved, and to prevent such incidents from happening in the future".
The vast majority of perpetrators in either case are men.
Some have suggested that there are other perpetrators in this case, however - hundreds of thousands of them.
Ever since New Year's Eve, German media have largely been discussing the violence at Cologne's central train station in terms of a rape culture that was imported into Germany—simply because the perpetrators in this case looked "Arab" or "North African," according to witnesses.
The law also sets out to protect women with disability: under the 11th amendment of Naya Muluki Ain (Country Code), any perpetrator (or perpetrators in the case of gang rape) of sexual violence against "pregnant, disabled or handicapped women" will receive an additional 5 years added to their sentence [ 15].
In Oklahoma, mothers were identified as perpetrators in substantiated cases more often than fathers.
