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Brutal Numbers

By AAN Staff
october 16, 2003  02:56 pm
Brutal Numbers
South Carolina ranks low in many aspects -- education, road safety, SAT scores -- but it ranks number one for women who are killed by men in single victim, single offender cases. In 95 percent of those cases, the victims knew their killers. Of the victims who knew their attackers, 67 percent were wives, common-law wives, ex- wives, or girlfriends. To remember these women struggling to escape abuse, Charleston City Paper offers the personal story of one who made it out.
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