Domestic violence and brain injury

Domestic violence

Forty per cent of all family violence victims admitted to hospital over the past decade had suffered a brain injury Source: AAP

New research shows nearly half of domestic victims have some brain injury and almost one in three of these people are children.


New research has found that those who committed domestic violence towards others are not only creating brain injury for victims but also they themselves having some form of brain injury.

Nearly half of domestic violence victims have some sort of brain injury and almost one in three of these victims are children. Some example of that are 25 years old Rebecca Sciroli, whose stepfather slammed a hammer to the back of her head which resulting in she has to start learing everything from breathing, eating and walking etc. Another incident is Angela Barker, when she was 16, her ex-boyfriend has slammed her head into the steel park bench and stomped her face into the ground, which she said, no one has the rights to act as such either to her or anybody. It was so wrong to do such thing. #

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