Some women in domestic abuse project had also been ‘abused by their mothers’

Some women accessing a pilot project for domestic abuse victims were abused by their own mothers.

Stephanie Holt, assistant professor at the School of social work and social policy at Trinity College Dublin, said she had recently completed an evaluation of the Sonas Safe Home pilot project and there was an “unknown population” of women who were living with their mother, who was abusing them psychologically or in other ways.

Ms Holt is one of the speakers at a major conference on domestic abuse being held in Limerick today.