WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence
Crystal McClean says it was the beginning of a new year when she decided she needed to leave her abusive partner. It took more than a year for her to make it happen for good.
“I was in an abusive relationship — physically, mentally, emotionally and sexually,” she said.
“I left probably over 50 times and just kept returning. I couldn’t break the cycle.”
Now separated and on a path to recovery, she wants to see educational reforms to try to lower Saskatchewan’s troubling rates of domestic violence. In 2022, Saskatchewan had the highest provincial
