BOBIE-LEE DIXON
While it remains puzzling to most why so much violence continues to be meted out to women in Trinidad and Tobago by men and why gender-based violence has become a pandemic itself attracting global fights by advocacy groups one local activist believes these continued acts of violence has a lot to do with “damaged people.”
President of the Organisation for Abused and Battered Individuals (OABI), Sherna Alexander-Benjamin, said there were various factors, enabling a person to harm another.
“We go back to the saying “hurting people hurt people” and this hurt is expressed in various ways and degrees,” said Alexander-Benjamin.