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The Voiceless Justice Act
The Voiceless Justice Act of 2025 is comprehensive federal legislation designed to criminalize psychological homicide, establish the FRANKIE Registry, protect survivors, hold perpetrators accountable, and ensure that invisible violence becomes a prosecutable crime. It transforms decades of survivor testimony from dismissed narrative into admissible forensic evidence. It recognizes that brain injury caused by chronic terror is as criminal as brain injury caused by physical assault. It acknowledges that children weaponized against protective parents are casualties of war. It declares that when someone dies by suicide after prolonged coercive control, their death is not a mental health tragedy. It is a homicide.
This legislation represents the culmination of international precedent, neuroscientific research, legal scholarship, and the voices of hundreds of thousands of survivors who refused to be silenced. It is built to withstand constitutional scrutiny. It is designed for prosecutorial success. It is written to save lives.
What follows is the full text of the Voiceless Justice Act: detailed, deliberate, and uncompromising. Every section has been crafted to close the legal gaps that have allowed psychological predators to operate with impunity. Every definition is forensically precise. Every protection is enforceable. Every sentence is calculated to ensure that no abuser can hide behind the myth of “family privacy,” no court can dismiss neurological damage as “just stress,” and no survivor dies believing their truth does not matter.
This is not a proposal. This is not advocacy. This is not a theory. This is the blueprint for justice. This is how psychological warfare becomes a federal crime. This is how the voiceless finally get heard. Read it as a survivor searching for validation, and you will find it. Read it as a lawmaker considering sponsorship, and you will see it is viable. Read it as a legal scholar analyzing constitutional soundness, and you will discover it is bulletproof. Read it as a citizen who refuses to let another person die in silence, and you will know what must be done. The law is written. Now it must be passed.
THE VOICELESS JUSTICE ACT OF 2025 FULL TEXT BEGINS HERE
THE VOICELESS JUSTICE ACT OF 2025
An Act
To criminalize pattern-based psychological abuse, coercive control, and psychological homicide; to establish the Federal Registry for Abusers of Narcissistic Knowledge, Identity, and Exploitation (FRANKIE); to provide comprehensive protections and reparations for survivors; and for other purposes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title I — Findings and Congressional Purpose
Title II — Definitions
Title III — Criminal Offenses and Sentencing
Title IV — Jurisdiction and Federal-State Coordination
Title V — The FRANKIE Registry
Title VI — Survivor Rights, Protections, and Reparations
Title VII — Digital Evidence and Platform Accountability
Title VIII — Expert Testimony and Evidentiary Standards
Title IX — Implementation, Training, and Funding
Title X — Constitutional Safeguards and Affirmative Defenses
Title XI — Effective Date, Severability, and Applicability
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TITLE I — FINDINGS AND CONGRESSIONAL PURPOSE
Section 101. Findings
Congress finds the following:
Whereas, narcissistic psychological abuse follows documented patterns identical to torture techniques used against prisoners of war, as evidenced by the declassified CIA KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual (1963) and the Biderman Chart of Coercion (1957);
Whereas, survivors of prolonged coercive control exhibit measurable neurological damage, including hippocampal atrophy, amygdala hyperactivation, prefrontal cortex impairment, and autonomic nervous system dysregulation, equivalent to combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder;
Whereas, current federal and state laws fail to recognize pattern-based psychological abuse as a criminal offense, leaving survivors without legal recourse and enabling perpetrators to weaponize family courts, child custody proceedings, and social institutions;
Whereas, psychological abuse within intimate relationships and family systems causes documented brain injuries, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and significantly elevated suicide risk, constituting a public health crisis;
Whereas, international jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and France have successfully criminalized coercive control, establishing legal precedent for prosecuting non-physical violence;
Whereas, the Eight Stages of Narcissistic Psychological Warfare represent a scientifically validated framework describing the systematic destruction of victim autonomy, identity, and mental health through deliberate psychological tactics;
Whereas, technological advances enable abusers to deploy surveillance, deepfake fabrication, cyberstalking, doxxing, and coordinated digital campaigns that exponentially amplify psychological harm;
Whereas, children weaponized through parental alienation suffer developmental trauma, identity disturbance, and long-term psychological injury requiring legislative protection;
Whereas, survivors who die by suicide following prolonged coercive control are casualties of psychological homicide, not isolated mental health crises;
Whereas, the federal government has a compelling interest in preventing torture, protecting human dignity, reducing suicide, and ensuring equal protection under law for all persons subjected to systematic psychological violence;
Whereas, no comprehensive federal statute currently addresses the unique harms of narcissistic psychological abuse, coercive control within families, or the weaponization of legal and medical systems against survivors.
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Section 102. Purpose and Intent
The purposes of this Act are to:
Criminalize pattern-based psychological abuse, coercive control, and psychological homicide under federal law.
Establish clear legal definitions for predatory psychological tactics including Constructive Fraud of Intimacy, Trauma-Encoded Dependency, Coerced Defense Aggression, and Neurological Battery.
Create sentencing guidelines proportionate to the severe and lasting harm caused by psychological warfare.
Establish the FRANKIE Registry to provide transparency, accountability, and protection for future potential victims.
Guarantee comprehensive rights, protections, and reparations for survivors, including recognition under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Set evidentiary standards for neurological and psychological harm admissible in criminal proceedings.
Mandate training for federal and state judges, prosecutors, law enforcement, and child protective services in recognizing and prosecuting coercive control.
Hold digital platforms accountable for enabling psychological abuse through surveillance, harassment, and synthetic media.
Provide federal funding for survivor services, trauma-informed prosecutions, and neuro-forensic evaluations.
Establish the legal framework to prosecute invisible crimes that destroy lives, families, and communities.
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TITLE II — DEFINITIONS
Section 201. Core Definitions
For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned:
(a) Pattern-Based Coercive Psychological Abuse
A course of conduct comprising two or more predicate acts within a 24-month period that maps to one or more of the Eight Stages of Narcissistic Psychological Warfare, is undertaken knowingly and intentionally to dominate, control, isolate, degrade, or destroy the victim's autonomy, identity, or mental health, causes clinically measurable neurological injury or psychological harm, and would cause a reasonable person in the victim's circumstances to feel terrorized, isolated, controlled, or unable to escape.
(b) Psychological Homicide
The systematic destruction of a person's cognitive function, autonomy, identity, and will to live through prolonged pattern-based coercive psychological abuse that results in the victim's death by suicide, stress-induced medical crisis, or total psychological collapse, or creates conditions where death by suicide becomes a foreseeable outcome.
(c) Neurological Battery
The intentional infliction of measurable brain injury through sustained psychological abuse, including hippocampal atrophy, amygdala hyperactivation, prefrontal cortex dysfunction, autonomic nervous system dysregulation, and documented Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from relational trauma.
(d) Constructive Fraud of Intimacy
The deliberate fabrication of false emotional intimacy, affection, commitment, or attachment for the purpose of bypassing the victim’s psychological defenses, creating dependency, gaining access to the victim’s resources or identity, and establishing control that would not otherwise be possible.
(e) Trauma-Encoded Dependency
A neurobiological condition created through deliberate cycles of abuse and intermittent positive reinforcement in which the victim becomes biochemically dependent on the abuser through hijacking of oxytocin, dopamine, and cortisol systems, experiences withdrawal symptoms, and develops involuntary neurological captivity.
(f) Coerced Defense Aggression
A reactive behavioral state intentionally provoked by the abuser through sustained psychological abuse in which the victim’s trauma response is deliberately triggered and weaponized to portray them as unstable or unfit in legal or institutional contexts.
(g) Reputational Homicide
A deliberate, sustained campaign to destroy the victim’s credibility, social standing, or professional reputation through defamation, false reports, or coordinated social isolation.
(h) Child Weaponization and Coercive Parental Alienation
The strategic use of children as instruments of psychological abuse through coaching, triangulation, manipulation of custody proceedings, and use of children as spies or messengers.
(i) Eight Stages of Narcissistic Psychological Warfare
The scientifically documented progression of psychological abuse comprising:
1. Indoctrination — Grooming the Victim for Capture
2. The Psychological Breakdown — Stripping Identity
3. Psychological Enslavement — Creating Dependency
4. Mental Reprogramming — Controlling Perception
5. Psychological Punishment — Crushing Resistance
6. Psychological Submission — Enforcing Helplessness
7. Psychological Captivity — Ensuring Long-Term Control
8. Destruction and Erasure — The Final Betrayal
(j) Institutionalized Coercive Control
The weaponization of legal systems, law enforcement, medical institutions, or child protective services to extend or legitimize psychological abuse.
(k) Digital Psychological Warfare
The use of technology to surveil, harass, defame, or terrorize the victim through cyberstalking, deepfake media, unauthorized access, or coordinated online harassment.
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Section 202. Additional Terms
(a) Survivor — Any person subjected to pattern-based coercive psychological abuse as defined in this Act.
(b) Predicate Act — Any conduct that constitutes an element of one or more of the Eight Stages of Narcissistic Psychological Warfare.
(c) Clinically Measurable Harm — Neurological injury documented through medical imaging or neuropsychological testing.
(d) Pattern — Two or more predicate acts occurring within a 24-month period demonstrating continuity of purpose and method.
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TITLE III — CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND SENTENCING
(a) Pattern-Based Coercive Psychological Abuse
Fines up to $250,000 and imprisonment up to 5 years for Level 1 (2–4 acts).
Fines up to $500,000 and imprisonment up to 10 years for Level 2 (5–7 acts).
Fines up to $1,000,000 and imprisonment up to 20 years for Level 3 (8 or more acts or documented neurological harm).
(b) Psychological Homicide
First degree: Life imprisonment without parole.
Second degree: 25–50 years imprisonment.
(c) Neurological Battery
10–25 years imprisonment, mandatory restitution for medical and psychological care.
(d) Constructive Fraud of Intimacy, Trauma-Encoded Dependency, Coerced Defense Aggression, and Reputational Homicide
Each act constitutes an aggravating factor with enhancements of 5–15 years per offense.
(e) Child Weaponization and Coercive Parental Alienation
Penalties: 10–25 years imprisonment per child involved, mandatory counseling and restitution.
(f) Digital Psychological Warfare
Penalties: 5–15 years imprisonment, fines up to $500,000, mandatory removal of digital content, and restitution.
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TITLE IV — JURISDICTION AND FEDERAL-STATE COORDINATION
Federal jurisdiction extends to cases where offenses cross state lines, involve digital means, or result in foreseeable death. Coordination with state and local law enforcement is mandatory.
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TITLE V — THE FRANKIE REGISTRY
Establishes the Federal Registry for Abusers of Narcissistic Knowledge, Identity, and Exploitation. Registration is required upon conviction. Public access is restricted to law enforcement, courts, and authorized agencies. Registry includes offender identity, offense details, and restrictions. Violations carry penalties of up to 5 years imprisonment and $250,000 fines.
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TITLE VI — SURVIVOR RIGHTS, PROTECTIONS, AND REPARATIONS
Survivors are entitled to legal advocacy, protection, relocation, neuropsychological care, financial compensation, ADA recognition for functional impairment, and protection from retaliation.
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TITLE VII — DIGITAL EVIDENCE AND PLATFORM ACCOUNTABILITY
Mandatory preservation of digital evidence. Platforms must report harassment or face civil penalties up to $10,000,000. Use of deepfake or synthetic media to harm victims is an aggravating factor.
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TITLE VIII — EXPERT TESTIMONY AND EVIDENTIARY STANDARDS
Expert testimony on neurological injury and behavioral patterns is admissible. Clinically measurable harm constitutes prima facie evidence. Patterns of predicate acts are admissible under federal evidentiary rules.
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TITLE IX — IMPLEMENTATION, TRAINING, AND FUNDING
Federal funding supports judicial and law enforcement training, neuro-forensic research, survivor advocacy, and trauma-informed prosecution. Oversight is assigned to the Department of Justice.
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TITLE X — CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS AND AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES
Affirmative defenses include consent to psychological manipulation with clear evidence, legitimate parental discipline absent coercive elements, and mental incapacity preventing knowledge of abuse.
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TITLE XI — EFFECTIVE DATE, SEVERABILITY, AND APPLICABILITY
Effective 180 days after enactment. If any provision is held unconstitutional, remaining provisions remain enforceable.
⚖️ 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
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.
The FRANKIE Initiative Federal Registry for Abusers of Narcissistic Knowledge Identity Exploitation