Holy Cross Ministries helps domestic violence victims

As many as 37 percent of women in Utah experience domestic violence, and as many as 50 percent of immigrant women have been victimized. From July 2009 to June 2010 in Utah, 5,715 protective orders and stalking injunctions were granted, and domestic violences charges were filed. In the past 12 years, Holy Cross Ministries in Salt Lake City has helped more than 10,000 women and children escape domestic violence. A story about one of these women will appear in the June 15 Intermountain Catholic.