The Mashpee Board of Selectmen voted unanimously during its meeting on Monday, April 26, to appoint nine members to an ad hoc committee for the prevention of violence against women and children.
Town Manager Rodney C. Collins said on Monday that the committee will develop a strategy with specific objectives and produce a report that will be delivered to the selectmen.
Chief Kevin Frye of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Police Department, Jessie “Little Doe” Baird of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Councilwoman Edwina Johnson-Graham of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Assistant Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael Patterson, Domestic Violence Specialist Tara Carline of the Mashpee Police Department, Lynne Waterman of the Mashpee Council on Aging, Gail Wilson of the Mashpee Human Services Department, and Murylo Batista were appointed to the committee.
Murylo Batista, a Mashpee resident and public health researcher, recommended forming a committee when he told the selectmen earlier this month that “four homicides in the past year of Mashpee women or of women in Mashpee has shown that the safety and well-being of women are being jeopardized in our town.”
By Ryan Spencer | Mashpee Enterprise
