Businesses shining light on domestic violence

Finding Our Voices President Patrisha McLean and local FOV volunteer Eve Jamieson were distributing and hanging posters at businesses in Boothbay Harbor on Aug. 11. In the six hours they were doing so, 2.5 domestic violence assault calls were reported to Maine police every two hours and 22 minutes, based on Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence statistics. In 2006, a domestic assault occurred every 90 minutes in Maine, according to Department of Public Safety in 2006. In Maine, over 75% of domestic violence victims who are killed are killed when or after they leave the abuser.

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