The North Down and Ards Women's Aid charity has said it believes concerted efforts need to be made to reduce violence against women.
It follows an attack on a mother in Ward Park in Bangor in broad daylight on Friday April 22.
Michelle Myatt from the charity says "to have something so horrific happen in the blink of an eye is terrible".
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"It's only through continued recognition that there is a problem that a change can happen," Michelle said.
"People tend to think these things tend to happen at night time, in a dark alley when a woman is on her own.
"For this to happen in broad daylight when the woman was with her child in the pram and a friend there and however many other people in the park is shocking.
"For that person to attack that woman in such an unprovoked way just highlights that more needs to be done to address the belief that it's ok to do this."
Although this attack was thought to be unprovoked and carried out by a stranger, Michelle said the violence tallied with what they were seeing from the charity's work.
She told Belfast Live they said they had seen a huge increase in the number of referrals for people seeking help.
The charity has many a range of services to help victims of domestic abuse.
"The demand has went up so much, that could because of greater awareness of what we do," she said.
"But again it could be that the level of domestic abuse has risen.
"The stats have been recorded every year and every year they're recording that the stats are the highest they've ever been.
"All we know is as an organisation, is that demand is outstripping our capacity at the moment."
Michelle has called for there to be less focus put on women and for there to be greater mephasis on the behaviour of men that carry out attacks.
"You hear this about women making sure to go about in groups and don't put themselves in such and such a position," she added.
"Women should be able to go anywhere and do anything in the same way a man would and feel safe.
"It's about challenging and tackling what leads men to feel this is acceptable behaviour rather than telling women and almost making them feel like the victim all over again."
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