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The Sarah Jane Parkinson case, involving Canberra resident Sarah Jane White (née Parkinson), was a 2014 legal situation in which an innocent party, Daniel Jones, was falsely accused of rape and acts of domestic abuse by Parkinson, his former fiancé, who had since grown bored with him while dating police officer Scott John White.
This story contains descriptions of physical and emotional abuse. If you or a loved one is a victim of abuse, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or log on to thehotline ...
A 2009 report on domestic violence in Northern Ireland found that "under-reporting is a concern and domestic abuse is the least likely of all violent crimes to be reported to the police". [ 340 ]
He went on to lead one of the country’s first specialized investigative units for family violence. By the passage of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which poured more than $1 billion into shelters and law enforcement training, the U.S. was finally starting to treat domestic violence as a crime.
Domestic violence homicides took place in 22 of Wisconsin's 72 counties last year, with about 42% occurring in rural areas and 58% in urban areas, according to End Abuse's annual report.
Deputies failed to take appropriate action specifically after domestic violence calls in October and December, Tony said, though he provided few details about what prompted those calls and how ...
Susan Still (born 1964 in New York) is an American women's rights activist and keynote speaker on domestic violence.After suffering years of extreme abuse from her husband, blues guitarist Ulner Lee Still, she was awarded custody of her sons, and her husband was jailed for 36 years, the longest sentence ever imposed for non-lethal violence.
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who distinguished it from other news programs by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation.