Senators Barbara Buono, D-Middlesex, and Linda R. Greenstein, D-Middlesex, Mercer, stand with domestic violence advocate Ashlee Newman after a press conference in the Statehouse today. Ashlee’s cousin, Heather Newman of Old Bridge, was brutally murdered by her estranged husband in December, 2011. The press conference brought awareness to three bills pending in the Senate, S-148, S-331 and S-1301, that would work to protect domestic violence victims from continued abuse and harm from their abusers.