Shedding light on the dark side of teen dating: dating violence
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The U.S. is raising awareness about teen dating violence, which is prevalent among teens, often hidden from parents and a risk factor for future problems.
By Dylan Klempner
In the summer of 2002, a month after graduating from high school, Donecia Middleton was physically assaulted by an ex-boyfriend after she called off their relationship. ‘He almost killed me,’ she said.
Middleton suffered blunt-force trauma to her head and had to be flown to the Brackenridge Trauma Center in Austin, Texas, where she lives. She spent five days in a coma.
She still can’t remember what happened. When she woke up in the hospital, she thought she had been in a car accident. Her only information about the assault came from witness statements police later read to her.
Middleton started dating her ex-boyfriend when she was 17. He won her over by saying he would treat her better than her other partners had. Soon, however, he wanted to occupy all of her free time and began separating her from her friends an...
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