The story you are about to read is one of the most shocking domestic violence cases we have come across. So we will leave the pictures and the photos to Milo Pope of the Daily Mail.[1] Be warned: only click if you you are prepared to risk a sleepless night; because this will be traumatic.
Veteran readers will know that violence against women has always been one of our Idées fixées at this blog. You know why we think this, so we won’t run through our whole list of reasons once again. Let’s concentrate on something that we can all do, however small, to move things forward. And it seems to us that one such thing is the network of womens’ refuges and shelters which have grown up in several countries such as the UK. OK, ia shelter’s not as good as jailing the perpetrators to a life of penal servitude with hard labour. But at least its a place where the victim can feel safe and maybe begin to reconstruct the shattered fragments of body and mind.
In December last year we published an appeal on behalf of Refuge, a UK based charity which does much to try to ameliorate the sufferings of its victims. Overseas readers will find something similar within their own shores no doubt. But wherever you are, do you think you could send something, however small, to combat this enormous social evil?
[2]https://refuge.org.uk/
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