Domestic Violence calls on the rise

Forecast is next.

Corona stinger april is sexual assault awareness month?

A time to make sure victims have a voice.

Some of them?

Might feel powerless in an era of sta?

A?home executive orders and social quarantines.

The rape abuse and incest national network reports 8 out of ten assaults are committed by someone known to the victim.

Olmsted county attorney mark ostrem believes the sta?a?home orders make people more "sexual assault is certainly one of them, domestic violence is another, and certainly some of those fraud things is a whole other area.

We just become more vulnerable because we are kind of trapped."

Ostrem says there has been an uptick in domestics.

In the last couple of weeks?

He estimates incidents have been up 15 to 20 corona