Domestic Abuse: How Should It Be Reported on Patch?
We've reported a fair number of cases on Patch in the past few months. What's the best way to bring it to light?
You don't have to spend much time around the courthouse in St. Louis or St. Charles counties before you realize this: Domestic abuse is epidemic in the community. Our associate local editor Joe Scott saw that pretty quickly as he started aggressively covering the courthouse for his fellow Patch editors in April. He's written nearly 600 stories about crime in the community since April; about 80 of them have been about some form of domestic abuse. He's written about cases of boyfriends or husbands bashing women's faces, dragging them by their hair and punching them—in all cases, incidents that resulted in charges being filed against the assailants. And you read those stories. A lot. The average readership of those stories is fully 66 percent…
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JoanLauterbach
9:48 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Deborah, By the way, I asked my daughter for the comment that I made(she described it) Ironic as it may be she is now in her Junior year of College majoring in Psychology(needs to take care of the children ~a good job),,,of course, he tells her that it is a waste of time and the children tell her that also,,,it is a round and round thing,,,I pity the next poor victim of his manipulation, believe … more ›