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Not only is domestic violence up during the pandemic, but providing emergency help for victims has become far more costly and difficult, according to experts in Connecticut.
Police say the man stabbed the victim. He is being held on a $1 million bond. Author: Carmen Chau Updated: 7:33 PM EST December 15, 2020
BRISTOL, Conn. New details were released on the death of a woman in Bristol from Sunday night.
Police said the victim had a restraining order against the suspect 54-year old Kevin Bard. The homicide took place at 98 Vance Drive at the Bonnie Acres Apartment Complex.
A neighbor told FOX61 he saw it coming all along. Sad, sad. It could’ve been prevented, said Tony Hamilton of Bristol.
Hamilton lived next door to the 58-year old woman who was found dead Sunday night. He said for days on end, he would hear the victim and Bard argue nonstop. Police said the two had a long-term relationship.
Her husband had tried to rape her and threatened to kill her.
âI had the hammer so I could easily grab it if anything happened at night,â she said. âIt got to the point that I was scared for my life.â
Ijomah, a survivor who was able to free herself from years of domestic abuse in 2013, is one of the thousands of women in the state who found themselves in an abusive relationship â one where control, manipulation, and oftentimes violence is at the center.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN A PANDEMIC
WHAT: Police, prosecutors and advocates say that while domestic violence calls during the pandemic appear to remain at similar levels to past years, the intensity of violence has grown.
Local woman shares story of tragedy in hopes to break domestic violence.
Local woman shares story of tragedy in hopes to break domestic violence cycle for others; her company raises funds for various domestic violence charities
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When Sarah Ripoli was ready to go public with the tragedy she experienced when she was 6 years old, when her father Frank Ripoli Jr. fatally shot her mother Brenda Ripoli, she sent a message to her sorority sisters and told them what had happened first.
It was December 2018 and many responses she received were “but you are so normal.”
For more than two decades, Ripoli was shielded from the details of the murder, aside from just knowing her father killed her mother at their Medford home in Burlington County. She was in the house at the time. Not until recently had she learned all the details of what transpired on April 8, 1999, through the help of Jan Hefler, a journalist who spent years covering the tragic story for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Rip