After two women in Miranda’s* mothers group began to suspect she was being abused, they helped her finesse an escape plan for her and her baby. That’s when Justin’s* stalking began.  In this episode of There’s No Place Like Home: After she leaves, Tara Rae Moss shares Miranda’s story and investigates perpetrators who stalk and harass their former partners after they separate.

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Sources:

1. One in five women one in 15 men have been physically stalked: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2024). 2021–2022 Personal Safety Survey.
2. 51% of people in Australia have experienced technology-facilitated abuse: Powell, A., Flynn, A., & Henry, N. (2022). Technology-facilitated abuse: National survey of Australian adults’ experiences.
3. In 40 percent of Australian cases where a man killed a current or former female partner, he had also stalked her: Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network. (2022). Intimate partner violence homicides 2008–2018. In Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety & Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network. Data Report.