• Nationally, 1 out of every 12 women has been stalked at some point in her life.

• Seventy-six percent of women killed by intimate partners were stalked by these partners before they were killed.

• Locally, in 2002, only 20 percent of criminal stalking cases resulted in a guilty conviction. That same year, 58 percent of the cases were dismissed.

• In 2001, the national homicide rate among female victims murdered by a male in a single victim/single perpetrator incident was 1.4 per 100,000. Utah's rate was 21 percent higher than the national rate, putting Utah at 16th in the nation.

• In 2003, 26 individuals in Utah lost their lives in domestic violence-related homicides.

• On a national level, at least 6 percent of all pregnant women, about 240,000, are battered each year by the men in their lives.

• Pregnant women and recently pregnant women are more likely to be victims of homicide than to die of any other cause, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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