The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence statistics show that women ages 18-24 are most commonly abused by an intimate partner. Thirty-three percent of women statistically have been victims of some sort of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime. We know this. But numbers do not mean anything until there’s a victim.
The murder of Lauren McCluskey, the University of Utah student-athlete, is a tragic example of the domestic violence epidemic that plagues the state of Utah. She went from a simple statistical report on Utah’s domestic violence epidemic to the face of it.
As three female college students, we not only want to expose this epidemic, but we want to remind our fellow Utahns that domestic violence knows no bounds.