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Report: above-average number of domestic violence homicides in 2016
End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin recently released its 2016 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report — and the statistics are “extremely troubling.”
There were 73 domestic violence-related deaths last year — 57 victims, 14 perpetrators who then committed suicide, and two perpetrators killed by responding law enforcement.
Among the victims, seven were under the age of 17.
“The results of this report are extremely troubling,” state Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, said. “Every five days in Wisconsin a person dies due to domestic violence. This report underscores the fact that domestic violence has become a public health crisis in Wisconsin and it should serve as a haunting reminder to lawmakers that deaths at the hands of domestic violence are absolutely preventable.”
Sargent is the author of a bill that would mandate teen-dating violence education in schools across Wisconsin. “We simply cannot continue letting our kids become domestic violence statistics,” she said.
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