Arrests are rising, but officials say many cases are not ending in successful prosecutions.
In 2022, there were 217 instances in which Fairfax County authorities
“We have had a significant rise in charges of strangulation, not only in Fairfax County but in the Commonwealth of Virginia and across the nation,” said Gayl Carr, a judge in the county’s juvenile and domestic relations court. “But we don’t see a lot of prosecutions or convictions.” Leaders spent the day probing points in the criminal system when people who alleged they had been strangledat the symposium implored officials to take more seriously that strangling someone, which blocks air and blood flow to the brain, can have lethal consequences.“We need to have that understanding of what strangulation means — the medical part and the legal part — so that we protect public safety,” said Carr, who helped organize the event.
“If a victim doesn’t get medical attention, she’s not going to get a good clinical assessment or good documentation that prosecutors can use,” Strack said.Strangulation often occurs during domestic violence, and men make up the vast majority of those accused of such attacks, police said. Of the 378 cases that police have investigated between the start of 2021 and February 2023, 362 of the assailants were men, which is roughly 96 percent, police data shows.
a case could have fatal consequences. He and Strack presented research to participants about the dangers associated with strangulation, including a study that showed women who were strangled and survivedDescano, the Fairfax prosecutor, said data shows his office typically seeks to have those accused of strangulation remain in jail pending trial, but judges don’t always grant the requests.
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