Danielle Taylor.
, allegedly by people they knew well intimate partners, family members or relatives.
Their deaths shook not only their families, but also members of their larger communities who watched as those homicides occurred one after the other since spring 2020.
The deaths paint a picture of violent acts against women, an epidemic all its own that is not new and could
be on the rise.
Women who are facing domestic or intimate partner violence face an already challenging path to safety and/or justice, often having to recount their traumatic experiences over and over to police, victim-witness and social service advocates, prosecutors, judges and juries.
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The Mashpee Board of Selectmen voted unanimously during its virtual meeting on Monday, April 12, to form an ad hoc committee to review the issue of violence and abuse against women in the community.
Murylo Batista, a Mashpee resident and public health researcher, told the selectmen at their meeting that âfour homicides in the past year of Mashpee women or of women in Mashpee has shown that the safety and well-being of women are being jeopardized in our town.â
âWe cannot approach the problem of violence from the perspective of failureâthat we, Mashpee, failed somehowâbecause it extenuates feelings of blame and guilt which are not useful or relevant for building solutions,â Mr. Batista said. âPersonally Iâm not okay living in a world where our mothers, our sisters and our daughters are not safe, so today I invite the board of selectmen, the town administrators and the residents of Mashpee in declaring that violence has no place at home.â