On May 25, Maricopa, Arizona, police alleged that one of their own officers committed a domestic assault against his wife and teen son. Police arrived at the couple’s home around 4:00 a.m. after receiving a call. According to police, the defendant’s 43-year-old wife told them that the defendant had caused her to fall by shoving […]

Tags: domestic assault, Domestic Violence, restraining order, sexual abuse, stalking, threatened with a weapon

Even in the 21st century, marital rape is not treated as seriously by some as rape by a stranger. A woman whose ex-husband was found guilty of raping her says she felt like she’d been “sucker punched in the gut” when a judge recently handed down a sentence of home detention for eight years and […]

Tags: Domestic Violence, sexual abuse