The_Unfinished_Murder

The Unfinished Murder “Before the rape I felt good. My life was in order. I was getting ready to get married. Afterward everything changed. I kind of lost who I was as a person… I asked him ‘Didn’t you have a wife or a girlfriend you could do this with'’ He said ‘I like this better. I like it better this way.’ “ -Victim Testimony, Trial Transcript, People V. Eric Barnes, Kew Garden, New York, July 6, 1984. Rape is a physical attack, not sex. Rape crisis counselors and researchers define rape as an act of violence in which sex is used as a weapon (Benedict 2). A woman is raped in this country every two minutes. Between 1996 &1999 7,787,00 rapes were reported. The actual number is much, much higher because only 26% of rapes are reported. Husbands or boyfriends assaulted 28% of these women, 35% of these women were raped by people they knew; 1 in 4 of these rapes took place in a public place (Grady 4). Rape is a problem that infiltrates all countries and cultures; a Muslim woman who has been raped is disowned by her fiancé and her rape, victim, woman, sex, rapist, men, sexual, rapes, anger, women, power, hazelwood, type, control, attack, assault, about, violence, victims, offender, much, groth, because, time, stress, raped, posttraumatic, physical, one, old, likely, figley, feelings, experience, every