#domestic-violence

#domestic-violence

Speaking at the Museum of the Bible earlier today, Donald Trump appeared to minimize the severity of domestic violence, complaining that it is a crime "if a man has a little fight with the wife." He was saying that crime has decreased since his federal takeover of D.C., claiming that statistics show crime is down 87% but that in reality, crime is down "more than 87%." The reason that he's not getting credit for crime being down even further, he claimed, is that there are things that are counted as crimes that should not be. Like domestic violence.

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Sophie Quinn was sitting in a car with her partner, John Harris, outside a house in Lake Cargelligo on Thursday afternoon when a ute approached from the opposite direction. From the driver's side window, at least three shots were fired, killing her and Harris. Quinn was seven months pregnant with a boy her family say she planned to name Troy.

I WAS DETERMINED to return to Portapique before the snow fell. Anyone who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder will understand why returning to the scene would trigger and heighten the flashbacks, nightmares, and panic attacks I experienced that summer. I knew it would be gruelling and awful, but I felt I needed to go. My sisters Janice and Maureen questioned if I was ready, concerned it would be too much for me.

latest | A Dublin-based garda who carried out a "protracted assault" on his then wife, also a member of the force, has walked free from court on a suspended sentence. Trevor Bolger (48), who was previously attached to Ballymun Garda Station, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Margaret Loftus on October 25, 2012.

In the summer of 1989, Karen Palmer bought a used car for cash, filled it with belongings some clothes, toys, one pot, one pan and a shoebox of photos and disappeared with her new husband and two young daughters. She didn't tell her mother, her friends or her neighbours where she was going. She gave no notice to her employers and landlord, leaving items out on her apartment balcony as a sign she still lived there.

Wofford said Jones' most recent Napa County arrest took place June 13, after deputies were called, shortly after 8 p.m., to a hotel in the 4000 block of Sonoma Highway in Napa. According to Wofford, an argument between Jones and the reporting party escalated. He said the person told deputies Jones slapped them twice. Jones was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and booked into the Napa County jail.

Prosecutors are blasting the PFF over their decision to step in on the case, noting Adan's long history of escalating violence against Abraham. Adan was born in Somalia and first came to the United States as a refugee. He was also convicted of felony strangulation, domestic violence, and more. The escalating series of attacks by Adan began in 2022, according to prosecutors.

Authorities found the teenager and the suspected attacker suffering from multiple stab wounds after receiving a domestic violence report in a home in Casais, in the Tomar municipality. Moments after arriving at the scene, a suspected gas explosion tore through the house, believed to have been deliberately caused by the attacker, injuring one officer in the process. The teenager was found in cardiorespiratory arrest and pronounced dead at the scene.