By Linda Fairstein
Crime professional Linda Fairstein finds the striking destinations the place girls are such a lot liable to assaults, and what they could do to stick safe
Leaving paintings, driving in a taxi, even sitting within the convenience of one's own residence, those areas are associated via one harrowing characteristic: they're the place ladies usually believe so much comfortable, and they're one of the most typical destinations the place abductions of and assaults opposed to girls happen. within the 5 most threatening locations for ladies, Linda Fairstein explains precisely the place and why unforeseen threats happen, and the way to protect opposed to them. Drawing from her years as a groundbreaking prosecutor of sexual crimes in manhattan urban, Fairstein delves into the minds of violent criminals to teach the easiest practices girls can use to guard themselves—especially in daily occasions the place threat usually lies simply round the nook.
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Familiar Streets Walking is such a basic right that most people take for granted. But unfortunately, young women are indeed vulnerable to abduction when walking unaccompanied, even in daylight and on a busy street. Shocking proof of that occurred this past May, when 17-year-old Kara Kopetsky disappeared from Belton, Missouri (she was last seen leaving her school). She vanished just a month before Kelsey Smith was murdered, and Smith’s body was found about 10 miles from Kopetsky’s home. Similarly, college students usually feel protected by the campus environment, but this past winter, two students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in separate incidents less than two weeks apart, were plucked from the streets and abducted.
Then the line went dead. Dru’s body wasn’t found until the next April, across state lines in Minnesota, when the snow had melted. She was at the bottom of a ravine and had been bound, stabbed, beaten, and, prosecutors believe, sexually assaulted. , a level III maximum-risk registered sex offender, was later convicted and sentenced to death for abducting and killing Dru. The simplest safety step you can take in a parking lot is to avoid being unaccompanied, but that’s not always possible. If you’ve parked at a remote corner of a parking lot and it seems deserted, don’t be shy about asking security to escort you.
Similarly, college students usually feel protected by the campus environment, but this past winter, two students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in separate incidents less than two weeks apart, were plucked from the streets and abducted. Both attacks occurred in the early evening as the students walked home, on a street very close to student housing. In both cases, the brazen assailant grabbed his victim on the sidewalk, holding a knife to her throat and then pushing her into his waiting car, where he bound her and drove off.
