Her children survived and now are being raised by Judy. There wasn't any loud crying or angry yelling at all the lives lost. The silence, at times, was almost overwhelming. But the statistics aren't silent. According to the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence, there are seven times as many animal shelters as shelters for battered women and children.
Domestic violence is believed to be the most common and least reported crime in the United States.
Women are more likely to be assaulted, injured or killed by a male partner than by any other type of assailant. Between 20,000 and 44,000 women in Iowa suffer abuse in their homes every year. It's statistics like these that are changing the public's opinion on the issue of domestic violence, Miller said. This is a crime. A very serious crime.