Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book lurches into motion when a thin, anguished white woman staggers from Armstrong Houses, a black housing project in Dempsy, N.J., her palms red with lacerations and glittering with fragments of glass. The victim, Brenda Martin, is stunned and nearly speechless, but Lorenzo Council, a sympathetic black detective whose position in Armstrong seems to be part mayor, part padre, gets her to tell her story. She was carjacked by a black man, she says. Would she like to talk with a woman detective, Council asks, meaning, was she raped? No, something worse: her four-year-old son Cody was asleep...
...last week Webster Hubbell--a man who admits to having stolen from the law partners and clients who put their trust in him--was beginning to look like a victim, and Dan Burton had tossed David Bossie, his pet viper, overboard in an effort to save himself. Newt Gingrich, trying to figure out how the campaign-finance investigation could be done anywhere other than Burton's committee, may have been wondering if declaring the subject within the purview of, say, the Agriculture subcommittee on livestock, dairy and poultry would be seen as too much of a stretch. The Clinton...
...whole system is geared towards support ofthe victim," he says...
...studies show that only one student out of1,000 is a victim of a violent crime during theirfour years at school...
...obscenities screamed at me on a continual basis, and had been sexually and physically abused by him. When confronted and challenged, he said he was sorry... I was unsure of myself and ashamed of the abuse, and afraid of him... Without knowing it, I had turned into the classic victim. I was afraid and sorry for my abuser...