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The Voiceless Justice Act

⚖️ The Voiceless Justice Act

Criminalizing Narcissistic Psychological Abuse and Recognizing Psychological Homicide

The Voiceless Justice Act is a groundbreaking federal legislative proposal authored by Daniel Ryan Cotler, designed to recognize, criminalize, and prosecute narcissistic psychological abuse in the United States.

This Act redefines what the legal system has long ignored: coercive, calculated, and targeted psychological abuse especially when it results in suicide or institutional collapse is not just “emotional cruelty.” It is psychological homicide.

🔍 What the Act Demands

The Voiceless Justice Act would:

Establish narcissistic psychological abuse as a legally recognized form of violence, including patterns of coercive control, gaslighting, identity erasure, and psychological manipulation.

Create legal pathways to prosecute abusers whose behavior causes severe psychological collapse, suicide, self-harm, or hospitalization of the victim.

Introduce "psychological homicide" as a legal category, recognizing that some suicides are the direct result of sustained psychological warfare.

Implement national training standards for law enforcement, family court, and mental health professionals to identify and respond to signs of psychological terrorism.

Expand survivor protections, including restraining orders for non-physical abuse, trauma-informed courtroom accommodations, and whistleblower protections for survivors who speak out.


📢 Why It Matters

Right now, survivors of psychological abuse are routinely dismissed by the courts, gaslit by their communities, and left defenseless by a legal system that only protects visible wounds.

But narcissistic abuse often leaves no bruise only devastation. It drives its victims to suicide, homelessness, addiction, and complete psychological breakdown.

We cannot afford to keep ignoring this.
Silence is complicity. Inaction is fatal


🧠 What Makes This Abuse So Dangerous?

Narcissistic psychological abuse mirrors tactics used in:
CIA psychological torture manuals
Prisoner-of-war interrogation techniques
Cult indoctrination systems


It is premeditated, invisible, and deadly. Survivors often describe it as a slow mental assassination erasing their sense of self, autonomy, and will to live. When the victim takes their life, it is not suicide it is murder by psychological warfare

🧾 Where We Are Now

Daniel Ryan Cotler is currently preparing the Voiceless Justice Act for submission to lawmakers in Congress, alongside the FRANKIE Initiative, a proposed national registry of verified psychological abusers.

Together, these proposals aim to:
Transform federal law
Protect future victims
Expose abusers
And finally deliver justice for those who were silenced

✅ Take Action

🔗 Read the full petition and add your name:
www.change.org/VoicelessJusticeAct

🗣️ Speak up. Share your story. Help us break the silence.

📩 Interested in partnering, endorsing, or helping sponsor the legislation?
Email: healloudlymovement@gmail.com



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The Frankie Initiative

Federal Registry for Abusers of Narcissistic Knowledge, Identity, and Exploitation


🛑 The FRANKIE Initiative

Federal Registry for Abusers of Narcissistic Knowledge, Identity, and Exploitation

The FRANKIE Initiative is a federal legislative proposal created by Daniel Ryan Cotler. It seeks to establish the first-ever national registry for confirmed narcissistic psychological abusers specifically those whose actions meet the threshold of coercive control, identity exploitation, and psychological destruction.

Modeled after existing systems for tracking sexual and violent offenders, this initiative ensures that individuals who engage in patterned, manipulative, and targeted psychological abuse are documented, traceable, and no longer able to reoffend without accountability.

🔍 What It Stands For

FRANKIE = Federal Registry for Abusers of Narcissistic Knowledge, Identity, and Exploitation

This initiative would:

Create a secure, publicly searchable federal database for individuals with verified histories of narcissistic psychological abuse through protective orders, legal findings, or documented institutional harm.

Establish legal standards for psychological abuse cases including coercive control, smear campaigns, identity fraud, financial destruction, and intentional emotional destabilization.

Mandate cross-agency reporting between law enforcement, courts, and social services when psychological abuse is confirmed.

Require repeat offenders and abusers with multiple victim reports to be flagged, tracked, and reported in civil and criminal background checks.

Protect potential future victims including those entering relationships, shared housing, employment, or custody agreements with registered offenders.

⚠️ Why This Registry Is Necessary

Narcissistic abusers often leave a trail of destruction that spans multiple victims, states, and systems, yet they move through society unchecked. They are experts at exploiting legal loopholes, manipulating perception, and hiding behind charm or social status.

Unlike physical abusers, narcissistic abusers don’t need fists to destroy lives. They use words, silence, lies, and psychological sabotage over weeks, months, or years until the victim collapses.

Right now, there is no national mechanism to track this type of abuser. The FRANKIE Initiative changes that.


📚 What Makes Someone Eligible for the Registry?

Registrants would meet at least one of the following criteria:

Subject of a granted restraining order based on documented narcissistic or psychological abuse

Found liable in civil court for intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED) or coercive control

Named in multiple, independent survivor affidavits reviewed and confirmed by a certified investigative panel

Shown to have engaged in patterned identity destruction, financial fraud, or mental destabilization

Publicly documented (via court or institutional records) in cases resulting in the suicide, psychiatric hospitalization, or collapse of the victim

Due process, appeals, and expiration terms will be built into the structure to ensure fairness and legal integrity.

📢 Who This Protects

Survivors, who often suffer in silence and are retraumatized by a system that fails to hold their abuser accountable

Future victims, who deserve informed consent when entering close proximity with individuals who have a history of psychological abuse

Employers, therapists, law enforcement, and courts, who currently lack the data to identify repeat abusers of emotional and psychological systems

The general public, as psychological abuse is a public health crisis with deadly consequences


📢 Why It's Named "FRANKIE"

The FRANKIE Initiative is named after Frankie Zerella, the narcissistic abuser whose year-long psychological war nearly drove Daniel Ryan Cotler to suicide. Frankie’s pattern of abuse emotional manipulation, identity erasure, false legal accusations, and total psychological destabilization mirrors the exact tactics this registry seeks to expose and prevent.

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The FRANKIE Initiative Federal Registry for Abusers of Narcissistic Knowledge Identity Exploitation


Frequently Asked Questions



1. What is the Voiceless Justice Act?

The Voiceless Justice Act is a proposed federal law that criminalizes coercive psychological abuse and supports survivors through a coordinated national system. It introduces new criminal penalties, guarantees survivor protections, creates the FRANKIE Registry to track convicted psychological abusers, and establishes a federal agency to educate, train, and oversee these efforts.

2. Why is this necessary?

Current U.S. law generally does not treat psychological abuse as a crime unless there is physical harm. Yet many survivors report that psychological abuse destroys their lives, pushing them to suicide, addiction, financial collapse, or lifelong trauma. The Act recognizes these invisible injuries as real, deserving of protection and justice.

3. What does “coercive psychological abuse” mean?

It refers to a repeated pattern of intentional manipulation, intimidation, isolation, and control. Tactics might include:

gaslighting (making you doubt your own reality)

destroying your reputation through smear campaigns

isolating you from friends or family

threatening to ruin your job or finances

constant monitoring and surveillance

using children, religion, or community pressure against you


This pattern traps victims, breaks their sense of identity, and destroys their mental health.

4. What is “psychological homicide”?

If an abuser uses psychological terror so extreme that it causes a victim to die by suicide, overdose, or mental breakdown, and if that connection can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the abuser can be charged with psychological homicide. The sentence would be 10 to 25 years in prison.

5. How is this different from defamation laws?

Defamation laws are civil (not criminal) and protect people from false statements that hurt their reputation. The Voiceless Justice Act targets patterned, intentional, malicious psychological abuse that aims to destroy someone’s mental well-being  which goes far beyond one false statement. It is more like emotional torture than an occasional lie.

6. Who will be listed on the FRANKIE Registry?

FRANKIE stands for Federal Registry for Abusers of Narcissistic Knowledge, Identity, and Exploitation. It will list:

people convicted under this Act by a final court ruling, after appeals are finished

people with a permanent protection order supported by specific findings from a judge that they committed coercive psychological abuse

The registry will not list accusations alone. It requires due process in court.


7. What exactly will the public see in the FRANKIE Registry?

The public will see:

the person’s name and known aliases

the county and state of the conviction or order

the specific offense or finding

the case number

Home addresses will not be shown.

8. Why is a public registry needed?

Because survivors and potential partners, neighbors, employers, or roommates should have a right to know if someone is a proven psychological abuser. Background checks cost money, court systems are hard to search, and victims deserve an easy way to protect themselves.

9. Can someone ever be removed from the FRANKIE Registry?

Yes. People can apply to be removed after 15 years if they have not committed further qualifying offenses. A judge would decide after reviewing evidence of rehabilitation.

10. Will the law force states to adopt it?

No. States can choose to join the program to receive federal grants if they align their laws and protections with the Act. States that do nothing will not receive federal funding through this program but will not be compelled to adopt it.

11. Will the law apply to people accused but not convicted?

No. Only final convictions or permanent restraining orders with a judge’s factual findings after a hearing. Accusations alone will not put someone on the registry.

12. How will survivors be protected in court?

They can testify anonymously in some proceedings (except for final convictions)

They can testify remotely if they fear retaliation or trauma

Courts must prevent abusive, irrelevant cross-examinations

Judges, evaluators, and guardians must get trauma-informed training every two years

The law guarantees renewable protective orders recognized in all states

13. What happens if someone violates a protective order?

They could face criminal charges and be sent to prison, with stronger sentences for repeat offenders.

14. Who runs the program?

The new federal agency, called the Federal Justice for Psychological Abuse (FJPA), will coordinate survivor services, oversee the registry, provide training, administer grants, and conduct research. The FJPA will issue yearly reports to the public while protecting survivor confidentiality.

15. How does the education part work?

Public schools that get federal funds must teach age-appropriate lessons on healthy relationships, boundaries, and how to spot psychological manipulation

Parents can opt out

Public awareness campaigns will also run nationwide to fight stigma and promote reporting

16. How will first responders be trained?

Any agency getting federal funds must provide trauma-informed training every two years to police, paramedics, social workers, teachers, and others. That training will focus on understanding how psychological abuse works, how to talk to survivors, and how to document patterns of non-physical harm.

17. What help is available for survivors?

The Act guarantees:

trauma-informed therapy

safe emergency housing

financial support for recovery

a 24/7 national hotline

survivor navigators to help victims through the court and medical systems

free or affordable legal clinics for family law needs

18. When will this law take effect?

One year after it is signed into law, to allow time for training, funding, and system setup.

19. Does this law violate free speech?

No. It targets behavior that is repetitive, intentional, manipulative, and causes extreme mental harm — not protected opinion or one-time insults. Courts would still protect people’s First Amendment rights for speech that is non-violent and non-threatening.

20. What if someone is falsely accused?

The Act requires a full court process with evidence, a fair trial, appeals, and all constitutional rights before a person is listed on the FRANKIE Registry or punished criminally. False claims alone will not result in listing or sentencing.




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