S01E11 - The Murder of Lyndsey Vaux

We often hear intimate partner violence cases being between a man and a woman. We rarely hear the statistics of same sex couples who unfortunately fall into this devastation. According to a 2018 article by Luca Rolle, et. al., over 50% of gay men and nearly 75% of lesbian women reported they had been psychologically abused by an intimate partner. It is also reported that homosexual couples have a lifetime prevalence of IPV similar to or even higher than heterosexual couples. 61.1% of bisexual women, 43.8% of lesbian women, 37.3% of bisexual men, and 26% of gay men reported experiencing IPV in their life. This is compared to 35% of heterosexual women and 29% of heterosexual men.

If you feel as though you may be in an abusive relationship, you can contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or at thehotline.org

No one should go through this alone, or at all. People are there to help you.

 

References:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01506/full

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/becky-reid-murder-lyndsey-vaux-13753833

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/10/14/lesbian-who-murdered-girlfriend-after-starving-and-beating-her-for-years-given-life-sentence/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/13/life-sentence-for-woman-who-murdered-girlfriend-she-had-abused-for-years

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4676940/woman-given-life-sentence-for-battering-her-lesbian-lover-to-death-leaving-her-looking-like-the-elephant-man/

https://www.thehotline.org/is-this-abuse/abuse-defined/