Emma Murphy, mother from Dublin, Ireland, describes domestic violence attack

“Last year, he split my head open at an event and prior to that he punched me as well”.

The 26-year-old mom said the final straw came July 3 when she confronted her partner – who is not named but whom she called the man she “thought” was the love of her life – about him allegedly cheating on her. They were together for 3 1/2 years and have two children.

I can only imagine that speaking out and looking for help is one of the hardest things imaginable but Dubliner Emma Murphy has won the respect and admiration of people everywhere with this incredibly fearless, powerful and heartbreaking account of her own story. The stress caused her to go into early labor, she said, but she “tried to forgive him, gave him another chance and took him back”.

“So now, I’m a single mother of two, two gorgeous children and unfortunately when they ask them where their Daddy is, he’s not gonna be there”.

In the video, which has now been viewed over 4 million times, Murphy, with a black eye and scrape on her chin, speaks of the trauma she has experienced. He denied it. She contacted me and told me she as pregnant.

“Even once is unacceptable”.

When Murphy confronted her partner on Friday, she says he punched her in the face.

When Emma Murphy took to Facebook to share her personal story of domestic violence, hundreds of thousands felt her pain.

“For the previous year and a half, I’ve been told I’m paranoid, I’m a psycho, my insecurities will kill me one day”, Murphy said.

‘It is not right to raise a hand to a woman and it’s only now that I’ve realised that. She ultimately decided to challenge other women who may be in the same situation to stand up for themselves.

She ends her video with a tearful plea to every women out there – know when to walk away…and stay away. “Unfortunately we know there is no barrier to such violence”.

“Women and children are dying because of family violence and we need to see a commensurate response”, Ms Batty said in a statement accompanying figures released this week showing Australians fear family violence over terror attacks.

The organization also notes that 15 percent of women and 4 percent of men have been injured as a result of IPV that included rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

“Quite often if it happens once, it happens again”.