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February 17, 2015 CRIME | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
No boundaries for abuse YWCA director: Either gender can perpetrate BY CHRISTI WARREN
Last month, inside an apartment building on a quiet Dixon street, police found a battered man, covered in blood. His throat was cut, his arms broken. His attacker, police say, was his boyfriend. Mario Garnica Jr., 26, of Sterling, is charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of armed violence, four counts of aggravated domestic battery, and two counts of battery; he is in Lee County Jail on $300,000 bond. The victim survived, but that isn’t always the case. Domestic violence accounts for more than 1,000 deaths every year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Law enforcement officials say at least four of those deaths have happened in Lee and Whiteside counties in the last 5 years – five, if you count a bystander – although two of those cases have yet to be tried.
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• Breakdown of had sought reports with local help from departments the YWCA, she said. • Signs you might “I can tell be in an abusive you that we relationship Carol have worked • Need help? It’s Fitzgerald with people available 24 hours YWCA director who have a day. then been killed by their abusers,” Fitzgerald said. “This is why our services are so important. [When we shelter people,] those people’s lives are often being saved. “I remember we had a staff training just a few years ago, and we had people in our staff who were coming in the door crying because someone they had worked with had been killed by their abuser.” ABUSE CONTINUED ON 2
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