Anne Saker
Health Writer
Health Writer
In April 2020, early in the pandemic, six women in Cincinnati were murdered, more than in all of 2019. In at least half of the instances, domestic violence lay at the root.
A murder case that was a focus of The Enquirer’s series last month about domestic violence ended Monday with Marcus Reed going to prison for 15 years to life for the April 2020 death of Patricia Woods, a Westwood mother of two young children.
The Kentucky rescue this week of a teenage girl asking for help through a hand signal tells “the amazing story of the power of a bystander,” a Covington violence prevention expert said during a Facebook Live event Thursday with The Enquirer.
This special report was underwritten in part with a grant from the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and its 2021 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund....
The Enquirer will host a Facebook Live event at noon Thursday to discuss how to expand the solutions described in the news organization’s in-depth report last month about domestic violence in the Cincinnati.
Schools across Ohio and Kentucky are now teaching violence prevention courses in high school and social-emotional learning in grade school.
A Cincinnati domestic violence survivor credits her life to a partnership between Cincinnati Police and a local nonprofit that bought her assistance.
A landmark study from 1995-1997 study found 10 umbrella events that most often cause trauma in childhood.
To examine the intergenerational legacy of domestic violence, The Enquirer focused on one month's criminal court docket in Hamilton County for the crime then built a database of family histories.
An Enquirer analysis shows one in four perpetrators and victims of domestic violence had a family history of it.