Common Dreams - In the past decade, South Carolina has ranked in the top five states for for women murdered by men.
The proportion of women killed by men per population in South Carolina is twice the national average in the US.
An astonishing 92% of female murder victims knew their murderer, and 62% had been in an intimate relationship with the killer.
Some 36,000 domestic and intimate partner assaults are reported every year in South Carolina.
South Carolina’s rate of sexual assault has been higher than the national average since 1982 and increased by 12% a year in some years of this decade.
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