A Story by ~Tray~
Warning: This story is rated Mature and may contain material unsuitable for those under the age of 18.
Door slams, he is gone now. She sits, bent over on the floor her right ear, no sound. She stares at the broken glass underneath her, great grandmothers candy dish. She tries her best to focus amid the pain. She watches as the blood from her nose drips down, mixes with the shatterer glass.
She brings her still shaken hand to her face, her ear is ringing, lips busted. She holds her hand over her nose to try and stop the bleeding. She moves her hand upward, places it over her ear, gently she feels the back of her ear, the pain is excruciating, her earring is embedded in her skin.
She quickly brings her hand down places it on her belly, it feels tight, but suddenly she feels a little kick..( I'm okay mommie..he says from inside). She starts to cry, stinging tears roll down her bruised cheeks.
She places her hand on the edge of the table, lifts herself off the floor, she brushes her one hand across her knees to remove the pieces of glass, other hand holds tight to the table, as she regains her balance.
She looks around the room at the mess, her eyes move to the hallway where she sees a pair of little panic stricken eyes looking at her. Her heart sinks. Numbness replaces most of the pain.
"Mommie are you okay?" a scared little voice asked. "Yes..mommie is fine." she says to the little boy.
Mommie doesn't yet realize that in a month she will be in a coma.
Statistics:
Women make up approximately 95% of the victims of domestic abuse.
4,000,000 women each year are assaulted and beaten.
That means every 9 seconds a women in the United States is assaulted and beaten.
Up to 37% of all women experience battering.
60% of all battered women are beaten while they are pregnant.
2/3 of all marriages will experience domestic violence at least once.
Every day, 4 women are murdered by boyfriends or husbands in the United States.
Domestic violence is the number one cause of emergency room visits by women in the United States.
25% of all crime is wife assault.
70% of men who batter their partners either sexually or physically abuse their children
The lower the annual income of a household the higher the risk for abuse.
The number one cause of women's injuries is abuse at home. This abuse happens more often than automobile accidents, mugging, and rape combined.
The amount of money spent to shelter animals is 3 times the amount spent to provide emergency shelter to women from domestic abuse situations.
Family violence kills as many women every 5 years as the total number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War.
© 2009 ~Tray~
