National Domestic Violence Awareness Project

In 2005 Idaho enacted the first assault statute dedicated to strangulation and specified that no injuries are required to prove attempted strangulation. Five years later, Schneiderman, then a New York state senator representing the Upper West Side of Manhattan, introduced a bill in the state Senate that would eventually become New York Penal Law 121.11, which made “Criminal Obstruction of Breathing and Strangulation” prosecutable crimes.

TODAY?!:  Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is accused by four women of a pattern of violence against them – specifically of brutal actions like choking, threats and psychological abuse, and his own substance abuse – that would be recognized by domestic violence experts as some of the most likely actions to indicate future deadly action against an intimate partner. […]  The allegations against Schneiderman — which he denied even when resigning from office — are especially chilling in light of his role in pushing through legislation seeking to protect women from the very kind of potentially lethal behavior he stands accused of.

In 2008, a study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Virginia found that nonfatal strangulation was an important risk factor for homicide of women. We know that if a woman and a man were both strangled by another person, the woman was 10 times more likely to die. The 2008 researchers also found that experiencing a nonfatal strangulation by an intimate partner made a woman six times more likely to be the victim of an attempted murder and seven times more likely to be killed. For the abuser who employs strangulation as one of their methods (as Schneiderman is alleged to) the chance of their act being lethal is five times more likely than abusers who use other forms of abuse.

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