CARMEL – Domestic violence continues to plague Putnam County.

County lawmakers proclaimed October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month at Tuesday’s full meeting of the county legislature.

Piaget Solpiaget, executive director of the Putnam Women’s Resource Center, told the nine-member governing body and a handful of residents, “One in three women and one in five men have been victims of some type of physical violence by an intimate partner during the past year, while 72 percent of all murder-suicides nationwide involve an intimate partner, with 94 percent of these murder-suicides being female.”

Last year, the center located in Mahopac, answered 1,095 hotline calls from victims while Women’s Center staff members accompanied 89 victims to the Putnam Sheriff’s Department, court system, Prob

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