A police blitz in the south-east suburbs has caught 2700 family-violence offenders in five months, as Safe Steps warns more perpetrators are strangling victims.
A man who stabbed a woman and assaulted a teenager in the presence of two younger children. A man who broke intervention orders eight times before injuring his partner with a machete. A man who strangled his partner in front of her primary-school-aged children.
An assessment of data relating to clients taken into emergency accommodation by Victoria’s 24/7 response centre found nearly nine in 10 callers had experienced strangulation during episodes of violence, or had been strangled non-consensually “Non-fatal strangulation is a high-risk indicator for future fatality. We have seen an increase in strangulation assaults during pregnancy, leading to miscarriage as a result, and strangulation causing loss of consciousness,” said Tobin.Tobin, like Australian researchers who released a paper on the rise of sexual strangulation or “choking”, on Tuesday, said aggressive pornography may be driving the rise of strangulation in family violence.
Casey, which includes the suburbs of Cranbourne, Berwick and Narre Warren, had the highest incidence of family violence-related offences in Victoria’s 79 local government areas in the year to March 2024, with 5564 incidents.In the year ending March 2024, family violence reported to police had increased by 3 per cent on the year to March 2023, with almost 96,000 incidents recorded. Second-highest arrest numbers in the latest blitz were in Frankston followed by Dandenong .
“We have made an enormous number of arrests this year,” he said. More than 7500 charges laid in just over five months meant “an average of 17 arrests every day, or one arrest every hour-and-a-half”.
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