Day 10 of 16 in the campaign to stop violence against women
I really don’t know what it was that evening that made me decide to call the police, but I always say it was the sight of cleaning up my own blood
Lorraine, a British woman, was regularly beaten by her partner for eight years before telling anybody.
People have asked me why I didn’t just leave, but …. I was very, very frightened of him. So you get to the point where you live with it, it becomes a normal pattern of life, you adapt, you cope, you hide it
In the UK, emergency services receive an average of one call per minute about violence in the family.
Somewhere in the world, a woman is subjected to violence every two seconds.
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