As people across the country are confined together amid stay-at-home orders, domestic violence cases have seen an upsurge nationwide, experts and police departments said.
“Survivors are trapped with their abusers at this point, and with social isolation, they don’t have a lot of means for escape or for support,” said Stephanie Brown, executive director of Casa Myrna, a group that supports domestic violence survivors in the Boston area, in comments to WBUR.
