The kind of domestic violence Connecticut is seeing has grown more brutal, according to a top advocate for survivors.
The north wing of the Capitol building in Hartford was full of people wearing purple on Tuesday to honor Domestic Violence Awareness Month , as Mary-Jane Foster, president and CEO of Interval House , sounded the alarm about the growing crisis of domestic violence.
“I’ve been in this position for seven and a half years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Foster said during a press conference on Tuesday morning in Hartford. “Domestic abuse violence is worse, much worse now and it’s more brutal like shooting someone in the head or with a baseball bat .”…