ABC News Correspondents Report

EMILY BOURKE: Domestic violence is a tragic reality for many women in Papua New Guinea, a reality that is largely left unquestioned by the broader community.

 But the shocking case of a woman who's been repeatedly abused by her policeman husband has caused uproar. 

People have turned to social media, a recent phenomenon in PNG, to express their outrage and to demand police action.



PNG correspondent Liam Fox reports.

Please help Joy live a normal life

I READ with disgust about the sufferings and anguish endured by Joy Wartovo at the hands of her her husband last December. Then came the satisfying story that he was terminated from employment and behind bars and I thought these sufferings had come to an end. But for poor Joy, this was far from over. It was yet another disgusting story of abduction and abuse. She has been stabbed and hospitalised.

A young mother is completely blind because of injury inflicted by her abusive policeman husband in a violent three-year marriage that ended in November last year, reports the Post Courier.

By Billy Boram 

Members of ACT NOW! and PNG as a whole, I suggest the formation of a Coalition against Violence against Woman.

There are certain coalitions and civil groups formed to fight corruption, graft, HIV and child abuse. I appeal to good-thinking professional men and women to mobilize and form a group similar to what we already have and lets combat Violence against woman.