If the abuse is occuring at that moment, call police first, he said. The commission screens its complaints, and then decides which reports warrant further investigation. Some complaints are referred to other agencies because they involve children or elders with disabilities, or because the person described is not dependent on the caretaker. Of the approximately 2,000 complaints that were investigated in 1993, abuse was found to have occurred in more than 900 cases. Nearly a third of those cases were domestic abuse cases, or occuring in private home settings.
Women are the victims in a majority of the cases.
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