First nine months saw 81 cases of domestic violence

Tang Yuk Wa, director of Family and Community Services of the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said that in the first nine months of this year, the IAS recorded a total of 81 confirmed cases of domestic violence, according to a report by Jornal Va Kio.

During this period, IAS received 1,731 reports (including the aforementioned 81 cases) and assistance requests in relation to domestic issues.

Excluding those confirmed domestic violence cases, most of the cases related to domestic disputes and conflicts.

Tang claimed that IAS follows every single case, and provides appropriate services to affected families. These services can include judicial assistance and counseling. She also clarified that as not every single family is ready to have a third party involved in their domestic issues, IAS carefully handled each case.

On October 31, IAS released statistics on domestic violence cases with respect to the first half of 2017.

The data showed that domestic violence is dominated by corporal offenses, which totaled 38 cases (66.7 percent). Four cases (7 percent) were related to emotional violence, three cases (5.3 percent) involved sexual abuse, two cases (3.5 percent) involved improper child care, and ten cases were linked to various types of violence (17.5 percent)

In the first half of the year, 45 cases of domestic violence concerned marital violence and 11 were cases of violence against minors.