Study Shows Reasons Domestic Violence Victims Drop Charges

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Emotional appeals from their abusers who minimize their own wrongdoing, rather than threats, often lead victims of domestic violence to drop charges, a study found.
In jailhouse phone calls with their victims, abusers minimized the abuse and spoke of depression and loneliness, appealing to the victim’s sympathy, according to the study, which [...]

Celebrities Tell Their Stories of Domestic Abuse

One in four women can experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
Stunning estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend to 3 million women who are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend per year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Between 600,000 and 6 million women are [...]

Boyfriend Convicted Of Killing Domestic Violence Victim’s Advocate

FRANKFORT — A jury found Alastair Couch guilty Monday of murder in the 2010 shooting death of Tomma Graves, a Franklin County victim’s advocate.
The jury also found Couch, 34, guilty of tampering with evidence for throwing the murder weapon over a cliff in rural Franklin County.
The jury, which took about two hours to reach the [...]

Advocate For Victims Of Domestic Violence Is Murdered By Her Husband

 
ELYRIA, Ohio — Police are investigating the deaths of an Elyria couple as a suspected murder-suicide.
Neighbors say from the outside looking in, Virgil “Gene” McCoy, 63, and his wife, Margaret McCoy, 65, had a good, loving relationship.
But early Saturday afternoon, one of their adult children found the couple shot to death in their home on [...]

Avon “Global Believe Fund” For Victims of Domestic Violence And Their Families Doubles to $2 Million

The FINANCIAL — The Avon Global Believe Fund has doubled in size from $1 Million to $2 Million through the generosity of Avon Chairman & CEO Andrea Jung, who made the decision to commit personal funds to match the Global Believe Fund in honor of Avon’s 125th Anniversary.
The Global Believe Fund was established earlier [...]

Florida Residents Donate 34K Used Cellphones To Program For Victims Of Domestic Violence

Florida residents last year donated nearly 34,000 used cellphones to HopeLine from Verizon to give to victims of domestic violence in Florida, a Verizon Wireless news release said.
Verizon Wireless and the HopeLine program provide refurbished cellphones and airtime to victims of domestic violence, as well as cash grants to local shelters and organizations that focus [...]

Study:Domestic Abuse Often Escapes Notice of ER Staff

Three of four domestic violence victims treated in hospital emergency departments are not identified as victims of abuse, a new study reveals.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine analyzed court, police and emergency department (ED) records from a semi-rural county in Michigan between 1999 and 2002, and found that 80 percent of women [...]

TV Executive Gets 25 Years To Life For Beheading Wife

New York, NY – A judge on Wednesday gave a former television executive the harshest punishment he could for beheading his estranged wife: 25 years to life in prison and a withering assessment of his character.
Muzzammil Hassan, who’d claimed his wife abused him, stood with his head bowed as the judge told him that even [...]

Text Messages Give Details About Man’s Murder Of Ex-Wife

DOUGLAS COUNTY – Investigators spent another day inside a home where two people were found murdered last week as more details about the man at the center of the investigation surfaced on Tuesday.
On Wednesday of last week, the bodies of Amara Wells and her brother-in-law, Robert Rafferty, were found in a home southwest of Castle [...]

Woman Caught Researching How To Leave Abusive Relationship Tied Up And Beaten By Boyfriend

Sioux Falls, SD – A Sioux Falls woman using the Internet to research how to leave an abusive relationship was tied up and beaten by her boyfriend after he saw she had deleted her browsing history, police said.
Jose Benjamin Sanchez, 20, was charged Sunday night after an ordeal that began Wednesday morning. That’s when Sanchez [...]

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