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A doctor who practiced in The Bronx was the only one of four victims to survive her estranged husband's shooting rampage yesterday at their former home on Long Island. 40-year-old family practitioner Haleh Mohseni is in stable condition and expected to live after her husband, 49-year-old Mohamed Shojaeifardshowed, showed up at the house his wife was moving out of and fatally shot Mohseni's mother, the couple's daughter and then killed himself. The murder-suicide rocked the quiet town of Roslyn, with the police commissioner saying, "It's very unusual that we have three, possibly four people shot dead."
Witnesses say that Shojaeifard showed showed up at the house yesterday morning and got in an argument with his wife when he spotted moving trucks clearing her things out of the home. The two had been separated for a year and had an impending divorce. He then returned with a gun inside a case and opened fire around 12:30 p.m. While most neighbors told reporters that the shooting came as a complete shock, the Post talked to one who said that Shojaeifard had been a menace to the family. The neighbor said, "He was really violent and kept the mother and daughter as prisoners. The daughter was scared to go to school sometimes because she came covered in bruises. He moved four blocks away, but he drove by all the time, stalking them. It was creepy."
After her grandmother, 65-year-old Batool Biraman, was pronounced dead at the scene, 17-year-old Mandana Shojaeifard was rushed to the hospital, but died soon after. The teenager had just graduated from Roslyn HS and was set to attend SUNY New Paltz in the fall. Another neighbor said that her father was upset about not seeing his daughter much since the separation, telling the News, "The only time he was depressed was when he spoke about his daughter. She played violin and was set to go to college, and it made him lonely that she was with her mother and not him."
Haleh Mohseni was first in critical condition after the shooting, but upgraded to serious but stable after surgery. She is a family practitioner at Essen Medical Associates on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. A colleague of hers told Newsday, "She is beloved by her patients, and this comes as an absolute shock to all of us."
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How this woman is going to go on after this I have no idea... Terrible situation...
Life is weird. At one time these two were happy, went out on dates, had a wedding, had a child etc and the next thing you find out the guy is a nut job.
Evil men can often hide their dark sides from women until after the marriage, when it's too late. Once they were married, she may have been too terrified to do anything for years. His poor daughter was scared enough even though he was beating her for years.
It could have been an arranged marriage.
She probably realized how much of a crazy ass this murderer was, THEREFORE the divorce.
The problem in these type of cases is that these murderers can not understand the women they were once involved with are free to choose her own destiny,and decide to kill as punishment.
Honor killings are very close to this modality of men controlling women with violence.
Sad story.
Amanda, many women don't understand that either.
Don't turn this into a gender thing.
Both men and women are fucking nuts.
Yep, exactly Matt. Society puts all the blame on the men when a marriage turns sour. There are a lot of women controlling freaks out there just like men. One gender isn't better than the one.
You're right, Matty, it's not a gender thing. It's a misogny thing. Bob Herbert dealt with the topic in today's Times. He's talking about the Pittsburgh shooting, but it's just as relevant in this case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08herbert.html?_r=1
If you choose to think that systematic cultural violence towards women is not a "gender thing" your are free to do so. You might an award in Playboy.com!
I don't think this case is NOT isolated to this family, this situation of a man retaliating against the woman by KILLING her or people protecting her is NOT THE SAME than "fighting" between couples.
Can you be more superficial?!
Murder, intimidation through violence is a bit different than "control" freaks.
You are only "helping" yourself with such views.
Perhaps you can actually bring some DATA into this "argumentation" of yours.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/vaw/#sources
Fact #1: 17.6 % of women in the United States have survived a completed or attempted rape. Of these, 21.6% were younger than age 12 when they were first raped, and 32.4% were between the ages of 12 and 17. (Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, November, 2000)
Fact #2: 64% of women who reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since age 18 were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date. (Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, November, 2000)
Fact #3: Only about half of domestic violence incidents are reported to police. African-American women are more likely than others to report their victimization to police Lawrence A. Greenfeld et al. (1998). (Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends. Bureau of Justice Statistics Factbook. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Justice. NCJ #167237. Available from National Criminal Justice Reference Service.)
Fact #4: The FBI estimates that only 37% of all rapes are reported to the police. U.S. Justice Department statistics are even lower, with only 26% of all rapes or attempted rapes being reported to law enforcement officials.
Fact #5: In the National Violence Against Women Survey, approximately 25% of women and 8% of men said they were raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date in their lifetimes. The survey estimates that more than 300,000 intimate partner rapes occur each year against women 18 and older. (Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, November, 2000)
Fact #6: The National College Women Sexual Victimization Study estimated that between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 college women experience completed or attempted rape during their college years (Fisher 2000).
Fact #7: Men perpetrate the majority of violent acts against women (DeLahunta 1997).
Fact #8: Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) calculation based on 2000 National Crime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice)
Fact #9: One out of every six American women have been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. (Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women Survey, National Institute of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1998)
Fact #10: Factoring in unreported rapes, about 5% - one out of twenty - of rapists will ever spend a day in jail. 19 out of 20 will walk free. (Probability statistics based on US Department of Justice Statistics)
Fact #11: Fewer than half (48%) of all rapes and sexual assaults are reported to the police (DOJ 2001).
Fact #12: Sexual violence is associated with a host of short- and long-term problems, including physical injury and illness, psychological symptoms, economic costs, and death (National Research Council 1996).
Fact #13: Rape victims often experience anxiety, guilt, nervousness, phobias, substance abuse, sleep disturbances, depression, alienation, sexual dysfunction, and aggression. They often distrust others and replay the assault in their minds, and they are at increased risk of future victimization (DeLahunta 1997).
Fact #14: According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, more than 260,000 rapes or sexual assaults occurred in 2000; 246,180 of them occurred among females and 14,770, among males (Department of Justice 2001).
Fact #15: Sexual violence victims exhibit a variety of psychological symptoms that are similar to those of victims of other types of trauma, such as war and natural disaster (National Research Council 1996). A number of long-lasting symptoms and illnesses have been associated with sexual victimization including chronic pelvic pain; premenstrual syndrome; gastrointestinal disorders; and a variety of chronic pain disorders, including headache, back pain, and facial pain (Koss 1992).Between 4% and 30% of rape victims contract sexually transmitted diseases as a result of the victimization (Resnick 1997).
Fact #16: More than half of all rapes of women occur before age 18; 22% occur before age 12. (Full Report of the Prevalance, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, November, 2000)
Fact #17: In 2000, nearly 88,000 children in the United States experienced sexual abuse (ACF 2002).
Fact #18: About 81% of rape victims are white; 18% are black; 1% are of other races. (Violence Against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994.)
Fact #19: About half of all rape victims are in the lowest third of income distribution; half are in the upper two-thirds. (Violence against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994.)
Fact #20: According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBSS), a national survey of high school students, 7.7% of students had been forced to have sexual intercourse when they did not want to. Female students (10%) were significantly more likely than male students (5%) to have been forced to have sexual intercourse. Overall, black students (10%) were significantly more likely than white students (7%) to have been forced to have sexual intercourse (CDC 2002).
Fact #21: Females ages 12 to 24 are at the greatest risk for experiencing a rape or sexual assault (DOJ 2001).
Fact #22: Almost two-thirds of all rapes are committed by someone who is known to the victim. 73% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger (— 38% of perpetrators were a friend or acquaintance of the victim, 28% were an intimate and 7% were another relative.) (National Crime Victimization Survey, 2005)
Fact #23: The costs of intimate partner violence against women exceed an estimated $5.8 billion. These costs include nearly $4.1 billion in the direct costs of medical care and mental health care and nearly $1.8 billion in the indirect costs of lost productivity and present value of lifetime earnings. (Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2003).
Fact #24: Domestic violence occurs in approximately 25-33% of same-sex relationships. (NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, October 1996.)
Fact #25: Boys who witness their fathers' violence are 10 times more likely to engage in spouse abuse in later adulthood than boys from non-violent homes. (Family Violence Interventions for the Justice System, 1993)
Fact #26: An estimated 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United States annually for sexual exploitation or forced labor. (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 2000)
Fact #27: Somewhere in America a woman is battered, usually by her intimate partner, every 15 seconds. (UN Study On The Status of Women, Year 2000)
Fact #28: A University of Pennsylvania research study found that domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to low-income, inner-city Philadelphia women between the ages of 15 to 44 - more common than automobile accidents, mugging and rapes combined. In this study domestic violence included injuries caused by street crime.
Fact #29: Following the Supreme Court's decision in 2000 to strike down the civil-rights provision of the Federal Violence Against Women Act (ruling that only states could enact such legislation), only two states in the country (Illinois and California) have defined gender-based violence, such as rape and domestic violence, as sex discrimination, and created specific laws that survivors can use to sue their perpetrators in civil court. (Kaethe Morris Hoffer, 2004).
Fact #30: A study reported in the New York Times suggests that one in five adolescent girls become the victims of physical or sexual violence, or both, in a dating relationship. (New York Times, 8/01/01)
GLOBAL STATISTICS
Fact #31: At least 60 million girls who would otherwise be expected to be alive are "missing" from various populations, mostly in Asia, as a result of sex-selective abortions, infanticide or neglect. (UN Study On The Status of Women, Year 2000)
Fact #32: Globally, at least one in three women and girls is beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime. (UN Commission on the Status of Women, 2/28/00)
Fact #33: A recent survey by the Kenyan Women Rights Awareness Program revealed that 70% of those interviewed said they knew neighbors who beat their wives. Nearly 60% said women were to blame for the beatings. Just 51% said the men should be punished. (The New York Times, 10/31/97)
Fact #34: 4 million women and girls are trafficked annually. (United Nations)
Fact #35: An estimated one million children, mostly girls, enter the sex trade each year (UNICEF)
Fact #36: A 2005 World Health Organization study reported that nearly one third of Ethiopian women had been physically forced by a partner to have sex against their will within the 12 months prior to the study. (WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women, 2005)
Fact #37: In a study of 475 people in prostitution from five countries (South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA, and Zambia):
62% reported having been raped in prostitution.
73% reported having experienced physical assault in prostitution.
92% stated that they wanted to escape prostitution immediately.
(Melissa Farley, Isin Baral, Merab Kiremire, Ufuk Sezgin, "Prostitution in Five Countries: Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" (1998) Feminism & Psychology 8 (4): 405-426)
Fact #38: The most common act of violence against women is being slapped—an experience reported by 9% of women in Japan and 52% in provincial Peru. Rates of sexual abuse also varies greatly around the world—with partner rape being reported by 6% of women from Serbia and Montenegro, 46% of women from provincial Bangladesh, and 59% of women in Ethiopia. (WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence Against Women, 2005)
Fact #39: So-called "honour killings" take the lives of thousands of young women every year, mainly in North Africa, Western Asia and parts of South Asia. (UNFPA)
Fact #40: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported that 2002 saw a 25% increase in “honor killings” of women, with 461 women murdered by family members in 2002, in 2 provinces (Sindh and Punjab) alone. (Pakistan Human Rights Commission, 2002)
Fact #41: More than 90 million African women and girls are victims of female circumcision or other forms of genital mutilation. (Heise: 1994)
Fact #42: In eastern and souther Africa, 17 to 22% of girls aged 15 to 19 are HIV-positive, compared to 3 to 7% of boys of similar age. This pattern—seen in many other regions of the world—is evidence that girls are being infected with HIV by a much older cohort of men. (UNICEF/UNAIDS 2007)
Fact #43: : A 2005 study reported that 7% of partnered Canadian women experienced violence at the hands of a spouse between 1999 and 2004. Of these battered women, nearly one-quarter (23%) reported being beaten, choked, or threatened with a knife or gun. (Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile, 2005)
Fact #44: In Zimbabwe, domestic violence accounts for more than 60% of murder cases that go through the high court in Harare. (ZWRCN)
Fact #45: a study in Zaria, Nigeria found that 16 percent of hospital patients treated for sexually transmitted infections were younger than 5. (UNFPA)
You're acting hysterical. (couldn't resist).
Also do I really have to google for you wife on husband violence (killings, maimings, contract hits).
Didn't I just read a story here about a wife pouring boiling water on her husbands genitals?
Universal generalizations are usually wrong, Amanda.
yeah matty, I'm the problem!
Data: that's merely hysteria.
Now,go on with your life were women are the only ones that are the problem...
was that the only piece of news you were able to find?
LAME all around.
I said both men and women CAN be as bad as one another. I never said women were the problem. That's as absurd as saying only men are the problem.
Your generalizations are weak at best.
And for every crazy fucked up psychopath who decides that this behavior is OK there's millions of loving supporting boyfriends and husbands who raise great families and take care of their spouses.
So...yeah. I'm done.
Calling a cat, cat, is not generalizing, don't be so simplistic!
The only thing your bringing is: You just don't like feminists. You OVERSIMPLIFY the problem of violence towards women by saying men are also victims!
That is soooooooooo disproportionate. You are being unfair to this situation just by trying to show a very superficial hint of "fairness" based on your distaste for REAL gender issues.
what you called "generalizations" are not only but CONCEPTS related to DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
man, keep your fights to something worthwhile.
Calling a cat, cat, is not generalizing, don't be so simplistic!
So calling a cat a cat is akin to calling all men violent, misogynistic and homicidal?
Barryup, where do you find this generalizations?
I look, and look , and look, and can not find Amandas's
"calling all men violent, misogynistic and homicidal".
**you paranoid?
Amanda, I'm a woman and I fully support most of what you are saying, but you are being a bit fanatical. Matty is right in saying that BOTH men and women play equal parts in insanity.
Gender doesn't pick who gets to be a jackass and who doesn't.
Ugh!!!! Edit people----EDIT! You're a writer----You are paid to write! Read over your blogs before you post them! Please! And you want a press pass...
"49-year-old Mohamed Shojaeifardshowed, showed up at the house she was moving out of and fatally shot"
On a separate note, that was an excellent Times article.
Just wondering what the male counterpart to a "feminist" is. We really don't have one, I guess. Our wives won't allow it.
It was something between Promise Keepers and "Iron John", featuring guys with 'silent, unloving fathers' banging tribal drums in the woods. Very off-putting, to say the least...
Yeah, I know. Just sitting at home having a nice night with the wife and kids just doesn't do it. Feel like I should be paying some sort of reparations, or at least out protesting against something-or-other, whatever they tell me I should be protesting against. I guess just being a good husband and father and being respectful to all people doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy, mixed up world. I feel so guilty!
Well, what would you call a white civil rights activist? The answer: a civil rights activist. What would you call a heterosexual gay rights activist? The answer: a gay rights activist. The term 'feminist' isn't limited to women. Though they are rare, some men self-refer as feminists because they believe in the tenets of feminism.
Funny, I noted that you left out "white" in your civil rights activist, but had no prob using the term gay civil rights activist. See what I'm saying here?
ask people in Chechnya!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00lygwz
Never relax around Muslims. You never know when they will do an honor killing.
I wish it was only one of the religions!
ALL religions have stepped on women....ask the pope!
And one must ask, Amanda, what do you do with your Saturday nights?
crickets
damn! What a crazy situation!
one has to be very dumb to take a stand in favor of an murderer, and attack those that defend battered women, But then again that's what makes this world; a bunch of dumb men ruling, not taking any blame at all.