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            JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MAJORITY STAFF REPORT

              A Week in the Life of America's Women

                             SUMMARY

   From across the nation, from small towns to major metropolitan
areas, from mid-size cities to rural communities, reports during
the week of September 1, 1992, showed that violence against women
continues to plague this country. Here is a brief sample of the
incidents we found:

     *    September 1, 1992, 7:30 a.m., a city in Nebraska: Two
          women are playing tennis on a university campus. Three
          men attack them and use the women's clothing to tie them
          up. They are both violently raped. The victims report
          that their attackers later  brag to them that they had
          been stalking them and they had similarly attacked other
          women.

     *    September 2, 1992, 6:30 p.m., a small city in
          Connecticut:  A 29-year-old woman is assaulted with an
          axe by her ex-husband;  he threatens to kill her and then
          rapes her.

     *    September 2, 1992, Time Unknown, a small city in West
          Virginia:  A young woman is raped by an acquaintance
          while she is  baby-sitting. The children witness the
          rape. Neighbors hear her  screaming, but assume she is
          having a disagreement with the  children. Charges are
          brought.

     *    September 3,1992,1:00 p.m., California: An 18-year-old
          mentally disabled woman walks to a store to buy a soda;
          three men abduct her and take her to a town 45 minutes
          away. She is sodomized by all three men, who leave her in
          a field.

     *    September 3, 1992, Time Unknown, Florida: A 21-year-old
          woman is beaten in the head by her father with a
          three-inch diameter pipe.  He is arrested after neighbors
          call the police.

     *    September, 7, 1992, 2:00 p.m., New Mexico: A 20-year-old
          woman, six-months pregnant, is beaten and abandoned by
          her boyfriend of  one year.