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Woman charged with child abuse
Kansan staff and wire report
A Lawrence woman charged in the death of her 23-month-old son was charged Friday with abusing her 7-year-oldson.
The child is now in the custody of Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Ser-
Kansas.
The woman, Wendy Brewer, 26,
faces one count of felony child abuse.
Brewer's attorney, Shelley Kurt Bock, told Douglas County District Court Judge James Paddock on Friday that the child had been living with his father, Scott Brewer, when the alleged abuse occurred, which was sometime between April 1 and April 6.
The child said he was bruised after being hit by his mother with a belt, police said.
Lawrence police said that a nurse at the boy's elementary school noticed a large bruise on his leg April 8 and, after further examination, found bruises on his back and upper arm.
A third son of Brewer's also is in
Brewer's boyfriend, Donald Bruce, 29, has been charged with first-degree murder and child abuse in connection with the child's death and is being held without bond at the Douglas County jail.
Brewer was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of another of her sons, 23-month-old Eric Brewer, who was found dead in one of the bedrooms of a south Lawrence trailer home on Feb. 5.
state custody.
An autopsy conducted by Douglas County coroner Carol Moddrell and Atlanta pathologist Kris Sperry showed that the toddler died from a severe blow that ruptured his liver. He also had 182 bruises on his body at the time of the autopsy.
Brewer was released on bond after a hearing March 5.
Both Brewer and Bruce await separate trials by jury in connection with the charges.
Brewer will stand trial May 18 and Bruce will stand trial June 15.
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Rape crimes in U.S. increase 59 percent
The Associated Press
Justice Department survey shows significant violent crime rise
WASHINGTON — An estimated 59 percent surge in rapes and attempted rapes and a substantial increase in assaults spurred a dramatic rise in violent crime last year, according to a Justice Department survey of crime victims released yesterday.
Preliminary figures showed that completed violent crimes last year were up 7.9 percent from the previous year. Including attempted violent crimes, the total was 6,427,480 million last year, up 7 percent from 1990.
These offenses include rape, robbery and assault, but not murder.
Department officials cautioned that the percentage increases could be misleading because they translated only marginal rises in crime rates.
The Justice Department noted that its estimate of the total number of crimes and attempted crimes last year—35 million—was well below the 41.4 million of 1981. The estimates by the Bureau of Justice Statistics have shown a gradual decline in crime since it began its annual National Crime Survey in 1973.
Still, the 6 4 million total completed and attempted violent crimes was the largest in history.
The survey estimated there were 31.3 attempted or completed violent
As for rapes and attempted rapes, there were 207,610 in 1991, up 59 percent from 130,260 the previous year. The rate of such assaults was 1 per 1,000, compared with 0.6 per 1,000 the previous year. Rapes and attempted raps had occurred at or near the rate of 1 per 1,000 people during 12 of the last 18 years.
The increase in the estimated number of rapes and attempted rapes was considered statistically significant. However, department representative Stu Smith said the increase in the rate was well within the sample's margin of error.
Justice Department statistician Patsy Klaus said the 59 percent increase in rape crimes looked dramatic because the actual number of rape crimes was so small.
She said the exact breakdown for completed and attempted rapes was not provided because the information was not readily available. "We've published the numbers we feel it's responsible to publish," she said.
"We don't know if it'a trend," she said. "If we are to obtain to get these numbers over the years, it would be of concern."
The number of completed and attempted assaults rose 7.5 percent to 5.1 million last year.
The biggest jump in the assault category concerned completed simple assaults involving injury, which increased 14 percent, for a total of 1.1 million crimes. At the same time, completed aggravated assaults with injury declined 1.7 percent to 616,430, the survey said.
Attempted and completed household crimes, which include burglary and car thefts, numbered 15.6 million last year, up 1.4 percent from 15.4 million the previous year.
The estimates are based on a survey of 95,000 people ages 12 and older in 48,000 representative households. They were asked if they were victims of crimes in the six months before being contacted.
Criminologists consider the survey of victims a more reliable barometer of crime than the FBI's Uniformed Crime Report because it includes incidents not reported to police.
The FBI statistics, expected to be released in preliminary form next week, are based on reports of crime to local police. The Justice Department estimates that 37 percent of all crimes and 49 percent of violent offenses are not reported to police.
Crime storv
Although raps increased last year, total crimes during the past 10 years have decreased:
Rape
1991 207,610
1990 130,260
Violent crimes (completed)
1991 2.6 million 7.9%
1990 2.4 million
1991 3.8 million
1990 3.6 million
Violent crimes include r
Violent crimes include rape, robbery and assault, but not murder.
Violent crimes (attempted)
Total crimes (attempted
1991 35 million 16%
1981 41.4 million
Other findings
Simple assaults
617,000 crimes ( 1.7%)
1. 1 million crimes 14%)
Aggravated assaults
Attempted completed household crimes*
15. 6 million crimes ( 1.4% )
*includes burglary and car thefts
Source: National Crime Survey, AP
Jeff Meesey, Daily Kanasn
CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporter's error, David Reidy Jr., a graduate teaching assistant in philosophy, was misquoted as saying "a systematic problem requires a systematic solution" in the April 9 article "GTAs and GRAs take formal action in union formation." Reidy said "systemic" instead of "systematic."
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- The Society of East Asian Studies will sponsor a lecture, "Japanese Economic Slowdown: U.S. Repercussion?" by Masao Wada, the Japanese Consul General, at 4 p.m. today at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
CALENDAR
The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. today and Wednesday at 207 Robinson Center.
The Office of Study Abroad will sponsor an information session about studying in French-speaking countries at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the French Department Library in Wescoe Hall. An information session about studying in Spanish-speaking countries will be
at 3 p.m. Wednesday at 4039 Wescoe Hall.
Environs will meet at 6 p.m. in
washington for Parlors A and B in the
Washington Union
The KU Wellness Center will sponsor a health lecture, "Ways to Quit Smoking," by Julie Huntsinger, health educator at Watkins Memorial Health Center, at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday at 138 Robinson Center.
Support Group for Individuals with Eating Problems will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Conference Room in Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The Women's Concerns Committee of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union.
The Kansas Zen Center and the KU Zen Meditation Group will sponsor a meditation retreat April 23-26. The retreat will be led by Do An Sunim, an authorized teacher of the Korean Chogye tradition. For information, call Stan Lombardo at 846-3153.
Degree Candidates and Faculty:
The University of Kansas COMMENCEMENT 1992
Caps, Gowns & Hoods STARTING NOW
All participants, including faculty, doctorate, law, master's and bachelor's candidates, wear traditional regalia during the commencement ceremonies.
Candidates and faculty members may obtain caps, gowns, and/or hoods at gates 22 and 23 at the north end of Memorial Stadium between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. weekdays April 6 through 24. To ensure proper fit and availability of regalia, participants are asked to visit the order center IN PERSON.
Out of town commencement participants unable to visit the campus order center may reserve regalia by following the instructions in the graduation mailing.