{"id":42939,"date":"2013-11-13T23:16:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/2013-the-bahamas-journal-jones-communications-network"},"modified":"2013-11-13T23:16:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:16:50","slug":"1200-women-abused-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/11\/1200-women-abused-annually","title":{"rendered":"1,200 Women Abused Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24253\" title=\"domestic-violence-women\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/domestic-violence-women.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/domestic-violence-women.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/domestic-violence-women-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The face of domestic violence in The Bahamas is uglier than expected with the most recent statistics revealing that over 1,200 women are abused annually.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Crisis Centre Dr. Sandra Dean Patterson acknowledges that this number may be far lower than what it actually is and is too high for a country with so few people.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dean-Patterson, a noted psychiatrist, went on to describe domestic violence in The Bahamas as an \u2018epidemic\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the many women who are victims, statistics show that hundreds of children fall in the same category each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have far too many children being abused in this country,\u201d\u00a0 Dr. Dean-Patterson said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesbahamas.com\/1200-women-abused\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at jonesbahamas.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The face of domestic violence in The Bahamas is uglier than expected with the most recent statistics revealing that over 1,200 women are abused annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,163,120],"class_list":["post-42939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-society","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}