— In 2013, domestic violence assaults in Maine accounted for 47.4 percent of all reported assaults.
— According to The Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, Maine Domestic Violence Service Centers provided 88,820 service contacts for 13,258 people affected by domestic violence.
— Of these, 12,610 were adults and 648 children.
— More than 757 people were sheltered; 835 shelter requests were unmet because of service limitations.
— Of 24 homicides in Maine in 2013, 11 were related to domestic violence, according to the 2014 report of the Maine Domestic Abuse Homicide Review Panel.
— Victims were overwhelmingly female and perpetrators overwhelmingly male.
— Most were committed by someone with whom the victim was intimate or close — a spouse, parent, child, sibling.
— On average in the U.S., nearly 20 people every minute are victims of physical violence by an intimate person in their life — more than 10 million per year.
— The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reports that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some sort of physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
Domestic Violence hotline: 866-834-HELP (4357)