| Three Women narrowly escape kidnapping, rape and murder attempt |
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| Written by Jeff Garvas | |
| Tuesday, 28 June 2005 | |
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WCPO News in Cincinnati has released transcripts of the 911 call from three victims who escaped an attempted kidnapping, rape and murder. View Complete Article Saturday afternoon three women from Fairfield where held in an apartment by two men who attempted to rape and then kill the women. Knowing a violent assault was imminent, the women refused to become victims and were able to narrowly escape with only minor injuries. From the news article and 911 call: "We was in his house we was hanging out with him and talking to him and he tried to lock us in his house and rape us..my sister's shirt is ripped off of her body and we started fighting him." And this is how they made it out: "My other sister had mace in her purse we grabbed the mace out of the purse and maced them and they took off out of the house and we took off after they left the apartment we ran out of the apartment got in the car and as we got in the car driving away he got out of his car and started shooting at us." The shots just missed: "He shot at us he almost hit us he almost shot us in our head." One of the attackers later returned to home and continued to hold police at bay until eventually surrendering. The second man is still at large. Comments by Joe Eaton OFCC's Business Eduation Coordinator: 
Fortunately for these three women, one of them was somewhat prepared and all
of
them seemed determined not be victims. This story emphasises how everyone
must
be prepared should a beautiful weekend day suddenly turn into a violent
assult.Violent assults such as this attempted rape and murder are far too common today. Around the world at least 1 women in 3 has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime. (John Hopkins School of Public Health 2000) As these women discovered, even what most consider 'Safe Places' are not necessarily 'Safe Places'. In fact 6 out of 10 rapes are reported by victims to have occurred in their own home or home of a friend, relative or neighbor. (US Dept. of Justice 1997) By chosing to defend themselves, these three women are today alive and suffering only minor injuries as a result of this violent encounter. Fortunately their defense spray allowed just enough time for them to escape. But it did not prevent the attacker from continuing to attempt to kill them. Raw data from the Justice Department’s annual National Crime Victim Survey show that when a woman resists a “stranger rape” with a gun, the probability of completion was 0.1% and of victim injury 0.1%, compared to 31% and 40% respectively, for all stranger rapes. For all rapes, woman who resisted with a gun were 2.5 times more likely to escape without injury than those who did not resist, and 4 times more likely to escape uninjured than those who resisted with any means other than a gun.” (Southwick, Journal of Criminal Justice, 2000) 
With every new victim who is attacked in their car comes a fresh reminder of just how horribly irresponsible was the advice of Ohio State Highway Patrol Capt. John Born in 2003 when explaining why the OSHP claimed people didn’t need to carry a firearm in their motor vehicle: “We do not want a loaded firearm readily accessible to the driver of a car," said Born. When presented with the fact that a firearm is useless in a pinch if it's locked up, Born responded: "If there's a dangerous situation and you're in your car, you can drive off." Related Stories: Two reasons why it is foolish to carry only when ''expecting'' trouble... Just ''drive off'' if attacked in your car? More defenseless Ohioans get Borned |