Committee Seeks Domestic Violence Task Force

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The Kentucky Domestic Violence Association says programs on spouse abuse receive about 35,000 calls each year, but the number of children exposed to domestic violence is unknown. The House Judiciary Committee moved Wednesday to create a new task force on children affected by domestic violence. House Concurrent Resolution 38, which won unanimous committee approval, calls on the task force to assess the responses of state and local services and study ways to reduce the effects of domestic violence on children. Representative Joni Jenkins, a Shively Democrat who is sponsoring the bill with Representative Johnny Bell, D-Glasgow, says children that have been traumatized by witnessing violence in their home are much more likely to become part of our court system and our juvenile system.