Domestic violence deaths ongoing threat for Oklahoma women

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TULSA, Okla. — The latest information from the FBI shows Oklahoma arsenic the eight-ranked authorities for astir women killed by men. The survey shows 91 percent of women were killed by men they knew - successful astir cases a fellow oregon husband.

The erstwhile year, Oklahoma ranked third.

“If you are feeling oppressed, mistreated, similar you person nary powerfulness successful a narration conscionable scope out," said Lori Gonzalez of Domestic Violence Intervention Services successful Tulsa. "Domestic unit is simply a signifier of powerfulness and power tactics."

20 years into helping home unit victims, Gonzalez is each excessively acquainted with the tactics oppressors use. She said it usually begins with isolation - shutting disconnected the woman's telephone oregon getting them fired from enactment - past separation from each friends and family.

"Then it conscionable get worse and worse," Gonzalez said.

So atrocious successful fact, Gonzalez was not amazed to spot the execution complaint for these Oklahoma women. She said determination are not capable enactment shelters and services astir the authorities to assistance abused women, and she said advocates are not arsenic preventative arsenic she would like.

"A batch of what we bash is reactive," she said.

Gonzalez said enactment from anyone helps. If adjacent friends oregon household announcement reddish flags successful a relationship, she advises them to connection the pistillate assistance oregon conscionable fto her cognize she is not unsocial adjacent if she does not privation to perceive it.

“It tin go frustrating erstwhile idiosyncratic you emotion stays successful an unhealthy relationship…it becomes important for that idiosyncratic to know, ‘Hey, I’m ever going to beryllium present for you,'" Gonzalez said. "Any enactment is large support."

If you find yourself oregon idiosyncratic you cognize stuck successful an abusive relationship, DVIS asks you to telephone its 24-hour situation enactment astatine 918-743-5763 oregon substance "SAFE" to 207-777.

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