Domestic Violence

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averaged about 1,000 calls each month or 12,000 calls a year.
In January 1992, 30 criminal domestic violence complaints were issued.
For January 1994, the number was more than 100.
Nationally, estimates range from 2 to 4 million women assaults each year.

Some studies show that 20 to 30 percent of all women who seek help at
hospital emergency rooms are there because of domestic violence.


Kyra Woods never made it to the emergency room. Whoever killed her saw to
that. She suffered 13 stab wounds to the back five of them so violent the knife
came out the other side of her body.
Wood's mother, Mable, and two aunts wept quietly in a back row of the
courtroom as the prosecution argued against bail for Woods' former boyfriend
Jackson. Rod Underhill, the prosecutor, painted a picture of domestic violence.
He told of a dramatic moment after the killing, when Woods' 4-year-old son,
holding a teddy bear, re- enacted the attack. "He put his hands around the neck
of ...

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abuse on society is negative, but unfortunately
it does not get much publicity unless it involves a figure that is well known
such as O.J. Simpson. Another sad thing is that people often shrug off domestic
abuse calling it a personal matter because they don't want to get involved or
they are afraid of what people will think about them
Survivors have found the emotional strength to break from their abusers
through different means: a hot-line number remembered from a restroom wall, a
wallet card of crisis numbers from a pediatrician who would not overlook a
mother's black eye. A grown child begging her mother to flee--and a shelter with
an open bed.
The women, some with their ...

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