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DA, Sheriff join forces against abuse...
he Anti-Crime Council that put the spotlight to great effect on opiates and drug abuse last year is turning its attention this year to another persistent and heinous social problem - domestic abuse.
Led by two partners in anti-crime, District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett and Essex County Sheriff Frank Cousins, the council will meet with clergy, educators and employers over the next few weeks to underline their concerns and suggest reasonable responses. The council is sponsoring a series of Essex County Anti-Crime Council workshops at North Shore Community College in Danvers.
Cousins spoke plainly in describing the plan at a meeting with the Community Newspaper Company's North unit last week.
"A lot of people didn't understand the seriousness of the opiate issue," Cousins said. The council's focus brought new resolution to combat heroin and Oxycontin addiction.
The two men hope the focus on domestic violence, including that perpetrated by boyfriends against girlfriends at the high school level, will lead to some solutions and fewer victims.
Separate workshops are planned for three groups, Blodgett said.
One will be geared to educators, "where they are seeing a lot more dating violence in particular," the DA said. "Another is for employers, who often either don't see the signs of domestic violence or don't know what to do when they do see it."
The third is for the clergy who, Blodgett said, face the conflicting directions: honoring the individual victim's confidentiality, and obeying state law requiring that professionals who see signs of violence report it to state officials.
Finally, a separate workshop will be held for chiefs of police and some police officers, in part because police officers themselves are being charged with domestic violence, Blodgett said.
"No one has the magic solution," Blodgett said. But, awareness is a first step.
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