Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
• Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten in the United States.
• Women are six times more likely than men to be victims of intimate partner violence.
• Approximately 4 million women in the U.S. experience a serious assault by an intimate partner during a 12-month period.
• 92 percent of domestic violence incidents are crimes committed against women by men.
• Child abuse occurs in 30-60 percent of family violence cases that involve families with children.
• In 72 percent of all intimate partner homicides in 1998, the victim was a female.
• In 1998, 11 percent of all murders were the result of intimate partner violence.
• Approximately 75 percent of visits to emergency rooms by battered women occurred after separation from the batterer.
• About half of the homicides of women by intimate partners were committed by abusive men after the women separated from the batterer.
• There are nearly three times as many animal shelters in the United States as there are shelters for battered women and children.
In Indiana:
• Emergency shelters in Indiana served 3,713 victims of domestic violence in 2001; 1,744 victims were denied services.
• 32,441 calls were made to domestic violence crisis hotlines in Indiana in 2001.
• In 2001, there were 41 deaths in Indiana due to domestic violence. From July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2003, there were 69.
• From July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2003, 2,611 victims and 2,635 children were served in emergency shelters in Indiana.
In Kosciusko County:
• From July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2003, 22 children were served in emergency shelters due to domestic violence, the 18th highest number in the state for that period of time.
• During that same time, 29 adults were served in emergency shelters in Kosciusko County, the 14th highest number for the same time in the state.
Sources: Indiana Commission for Women; U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics; Indiana Research and Training Institute on Violence Against Women; Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence; American Institute on Domestic Violence.
