With screaming heard in the background, the sobbing child asks the police to come.

"He's got the baby; he's got the baby," 6-year-old Lisa cries, her voice almost drowned out by her mother's shrieking and her father's screams and hits.

The police dispatcher asks how long the abuse has been going on.

"Forever," she says.

In this recorded 911 tape, a Utah child witnesses domestic violence at home.

Utah Attorney General Jan Graham said the tape is too upsetting to be played in its entirety.

There are 160,000 children like Lisa living in a violent or abusive Utah family.

On Wednesday, Graham called for the mobilization of experts and community leaders to free families - and the 40,000 Utah women physically abused each year - from violence.

Graham calls for a team of prosecutors, education officials and church and community leaders to identify how the state can bring an end to family violence.

Over the next 12 months, the group will draft and implement an "action plan," one that will address how police and prosecutors protect victims, how schools can help children who witness violence and how families can be healed.

Graham said domestic violence needs to be addressed in emergency rooms, the workplace, churches and neighborhoods. The state also needs an emergency hotline that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, she said.

Salt Lake Police Chief Ruben Ortega said there is a commitment missing from communities, which need to join law enforcement leaders in addressing the problem.

Graham said she didn't know what kind of financial needs would be identified by the action plan, but money has always been desperately needed by those who combat family violence on the front lines.

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The Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Council will ask the Legislature to give more than $1 million to the Division of Child and Family Services for treatment, crisis intervention and legal assistance for victims. The council also wants lawmakers to appropriate $100,000 for a battered women's shelter in San Juan County.

Diane Stuart, state coordinator for domestic violence, said there is a great need for more services around the state, especially for transitional housing, which would give battered women somewhere to go other than back to their abusers.

The statistics used by Graham Wednesday come from the recently released study by Dan Jones and Associates, in which 34 percent of Utah women said they were emotionally abused. The study also found about one in five Utah women felt if they told others about abuse in their family, they wouldn't be believed.

The study, which was arranged by the Governor's Commission on Women and Families, was released last month.

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