It is necessary to elaborate on the idea that Jessica is not exceptionally bright and certainly not as educated as she portrays herself on social media. Here is proof that Jessica is a fraud in these aspects of her life.
I have never witnessed an individual who has earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree misrepresent the type of degree, then broadcast such an embarrassing mistake to the masses via social media.
Jessica earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in correctional program support services, not a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in correctional program support services. However, Jessica not only shows her BA degree in the video title alone but also refers to her degree as a Bachelor of Arts on multiple occasions throughout the years.
There is no bachelor's degree in criminal program support services like Jessica claims there is at the University of Phoenix. She claims this is the type of degree she earned at the beginning of her video, "Earning a BA online/correctional program." Jessica explains how this university wrote a different degree on the fancy diploma than what she studied. She confuses "Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Administration" with the degree she earned.
How does a person attend college, take classes online, study for four years, and not even know what degree they have earned? Not to mention, Jessica still refers to this bachelor's degree as being in criminal justice occasionally when it is in correctional program support services.
So, onto Jessica's grammar, spelling, and punctuation. The following examples are not on par with a student who earned their bachelor's. Misspelling these words are baffling to me. Words like "dramatically," spelled "dramaticlly," "experience," spelled "experiance," "safety," spelled "saftey," and "daughter," spelled "doughter," are just four examples. Jessica's grammatical error is always using "your" instead of the correct "you're" when referring to "you are." Jessica's punctuation is often incorrect as well.
I am not being mean, aggressive, or mocking Jessica when I criticize her for the following. Attacking an individual over their grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills is juvenile and snobbish. I would never publicly criticize their fundamental lack of understanding of how statistics and percentages work. But I do it precisely because this person is a fraud.
This discussion is highly relevant to Jessica Kent for several reasons. Jessica claims to be an expert within her vast community in various academic fields. Jessica boasts about the knowledge she claims to possess and the level of education she has attained, from psychology to statistics, including the criminal justice system and prison reform.
Jessica claims to be an expert on percentages relating to DV victims, even though she misinterpreted simple statistics from an article she read regarding DV and misrepresented those statistics to her followers. Jessica saw a percentage and jumped on it, then shared it prematurely and improperly because it corresponded to her story of being in grave danger.
Jessica's introduction to the "I've been silent... until now" video is an excellent example of misinterpreting statistics and misrepresenting them to her community. Another example of her constant grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes is in the short title of this video. Still, it is also on display at the beginning of the video.
So, Jessica states that "70% of domestic violence survivors are killed AFTER leaving an abusive relationship." That percentage is unequivocally false. An alternate way to interpret that percentage is by converting it into fractions. Seven out of ten victims of domestic violence who are murdered, are killed after they leave the relationship. The key phrase would be "victims of DV who are murdered."
This total percentage deals with murdered abuse victims and not survivors of domestic violence. Jessica should be ashamed for providing false numbers to victims of domestic violence who trust her information to be accurate and reliable. How reckless and irresponsible is it to share such dire and grave percentages that are entirely false?
Some domestic abuse victims are attempting to leave their abuser, and instilling more fear in their decision to leave their abuser will make it more difficult. Especially if they believe 70% of DV survivors lose their life after they leave the relationship. Choosing to end an abusive relationship is the right decision to make. Jessica has no business discussing life-and-death situations based on her ignorance and stupidity alone.
I am sorry, but if Jessica is going to present information that she claims to be an expert in, then she had better know what she is talking about and present accurate information. Instead, she provides false information that boosts her agenda because she is selfish and lacks empathy. There is no excuse for such reckless and irresponsible behavior.
People like Jessica are dangerous and care only for themselves. She purposely or ignorantly misrepresented DV's life and death percentages to prove her situation to be graver than it is. Either way jeopardizes the lives of victims of domestic violence because they may believe their lives are in grave danger once they muster the courage to leave their abuser. Their lives would be safer if they left their abuser. According to Jessica, they will most likely lose their life if they leave.
Jessica's misleading percentages and false information can have a long-lasting, profound effect on victims struggling to find the courage to leave an abusive relationship. Those false statistics benefit her narrative, and why she will not bother to correct the incorrect numbers presented in that video.
Victims in a volatile and vulnerable position can look to Jessica for advice and solutions. Jessica claims to be the expert, a polymath whose expertise spans many subject areas. Add that to her criminal background, drug addiction and recovery, and prison reform, and Jessica certainly appears to be this source of knowledge. However, we know this is not true.
Jessica should take a thorough look at researching serious subject matter before presenting it. She would also need to understand research at this point, and Jessica does not. Or she does not care because her followers never hold her accountable.
What happens if victims of domestic violence decide not to leave their relationship because of the grim percentages that Jessica shared regarding death? These incorrect numbers deter abuse victims' confidence to leave their abusers rather than encourage them. Will people ignore that Jessica misinformed her community that seven out of every ten survivors of abuse who leave the relationship will face death? If Jessica discourages even one victim of domestic violence from leaving their abuser, that is one too many and unacceptable.
I take domestic violence extremely seriously. That is precisely why I had to criticize and denounce Jessica for covering such a serious issue with such negligence. Jessica is selfish and can't correctly interpret a domestic violence article, much less accurately relay the percentages. She is not concerned with any negative consequences this disinformation will have on abuse victims. Jessica is a foolish, ignorant, and inept woman. Jessica lacks wisdom and judgment as well.