ORIGINAL ARTICLE: https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/behind-the-badge-with-domestic-violence-calls-up-how-are-police-trained-to-respond/M5U25WWBMBCADIQWPK4VBDR63Q/ LOCAL NEWS By London Bishop Editor’s note: Our community needs professional, well-trained,...
By Ray Marcano – Freelance Dec 10, 2023 Dear Rep. Bill Dean: I was stunned — floored, really —when I read your position on marital rape. Last month, the Ohio House wisely voted, 74-1, to end a legal exemption that allows a spouse to rape a married partner. You were...
By WHIO StaffOctober 10, 2022 at 2:44 am EDT DAYTON — October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and there are organizations in the Miami Valley are looking to help. Artemis Center, located in downtown Dayton, offers resources to survivors of domestic violence. Jane...
I wanted to share my experience with a client that I had the week before Thanksgiving. It’s hard to explain the feelings I had that day as I had never actually met Sandra* in person, due to Covid, but she called us in 2020 and asked to join our support group. Over the...
Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, use a safe computer and contact help. Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800.799.SAFE (7233), or visit https://www.thehotline.org. The suffering caused by domestic violence is...
Dayton 937: SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 BY LIBBY BALLENGEE As the provider of Montgomery County’s 24/7 domestic violence hotline, Artemis Center saw a 47.7%* increase in calls from 2020 to 2021. Nationally, the increase was a little over 12%* and in Ohio, the increase was...
Dayton Daily News: By Samantha Wildow – Staff Writer Parker Perry When it comes to the barriers survivors face when leaving an abusive relationship, sometimes the obstacles make it more difficult to leave than to stay in the situation. “People still say, ‘Well,...
Dayton Daily News: By Samantha Wildow – Staff Writer Parker Perry When Christa Hullaby left her abuser in 2004, it was not the end of her experience with intimate partner violence. Hullaby would go on to endure over another decade of stalking, intimidation and...