SC ranked 8th in US for Women Killed by Men

By: Alice Massimi | WSAV-TV
Published: September 30, 2009

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A new study says the rate of men killing
women in South Carolina is nearly double the national average.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reported Wednesday that the
study by the Violence Policy Center says that women in South
Carolina are more likely to be killed by a husband or boyfriend
than by a stranger. South Carolina is ranked eighth in the nation
for the number of women killed by men.
Rebecca Williams-Agee with the South Carolina Coalition Against
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault called the annual report a
wake up call. She says the state consistently finishes in the Top
10.
The report also found that nearly all of the 46 women killed by
men in 2007 in South Carolina knew their killers. Two-thirds of the
victims were the killers' wives, ex-wives or girlfriends.