Brutal Numbers
By AAN Staff
october 16, 2003 02:56 pm
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.