Spike in domestic violence over the holidays
Posted Dec 27, 2010 10:43 am.
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City Police report a spike in reported domestic violence incidents, with a 30 percent increase in calls on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day alone.
Duty Inspector Keith Cain tells the Calgary Herald, police handled 96 such calls over those two days, representing a big increase over the same period last year.
That number is backed up by Peigi Beveridge of the Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter. She says the shelter’s 24-hour, emergency line was buzzing on Boxing Day.
Meantime police have laid charges of aggravated assault and attempted murder in one of those reported incidents.
On Christmas Day, they were called to a home on Exshaw Road in the northwest. There they found a woman with life-threatening stab wounds. Her condition has since been upgraded. Her husband, Gregory Pridham, is now facing charges.
