Working to aid the many victims of domestic abuse

As reported by the Queens Chronicle: 

BY STATE SENATOR JOSE PERALTA

Every 15 seconds, a woman in the United States is battered.

That adds up to more than 16,000 homicides and more than two million medically treated injuries due to intimate partner violence each year in this country.

Domestic violence is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of economic status, race, educational background or age. We see that in front-page headlines about athletes and entertainers either being violent or victimized.

And we see it in a study of New York high school students, for example, that found that 16 percent had already experienced sexual violence at some point in their young lives. Among those who dated, more than half had experienced some form of physical violence from their partners.

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