Beshear signs bill increasing penalties for repeated violators of emergency protective orders

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Elizabeth Martin runs the Center for Women and Families in Louisville, a domestic violence center that offers everything from a therapy to legal help to an emergency shelter for people in need.

In her decades of work with domestic violence victims, Martin said there would often be no punishment.

“We’ve seen a much more brazen — if you will — community,” she said Tuesday. “Perpetrators will come around our building. They will come looking for their victims. We’ve had some that have tried to get in.”…

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