This post deals with domestic abuse and might be triggering for some readers.

The hidden numbers around women and violence. Post continues after video.

Until my husband was tragically killed 18 months ago. He was killed in a work-related accident and as fate would have it, my son happened to be there on that day, bearing witness to the whole catastrophic and gut-wrenching scene.

As I write this I am more numb than anything else. My son watching his father die. This happens in wars all over the world; but it isn’t supposed to happen on a sunny Saturday afternoon in suburbia.

On No Filter, Mia Freedman meets Nicole Lee, a survivor of domestic abuse at the hands of her carer. Post continues below audio.

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