
It was just like any other house in the neighborhood but for the couple that lived in it. At least twice a month, the kids in the neighborhood and many adults too, would gather round this house peeping through the windows in order to catch a glimpse of the action. The motion was predictable. The couple would get into an argument and a fight would result. Then the man rants loudly making threats like ‘‘I will kill you’, ‘useless woman’, ‘just let me get up and see’. However, every single time, it was the woman that gave the man a beating. She would beat him and then sit on him until the neighbors would beg her to let him go. Continue reading Intimate partner and sexual violence