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The celebrity coverage of the violence alleged against singer Chris Brown inspired CBS' Byron Pitts. He quoted estimates that 1.3m women suffer violence at the hands of their spouses, partners, boyfriends and lovers each year. Of those, one in a thousand--1,300 women annually--end up dead. Pitts cited TMZ tabloid reports that Brown and his girlfriend Rihanna, the soul singer, had reconciled--even after he was charged with felony punching and choking and biting. Then Pitts introduced us to Barbara Hurt, a 37-year-old from Lakeland Fla: "He has cracked my ribs or broken some ribs. He has busted my eye I cannot count how many times. My nose has been broken and busted and bitten," Hurt recounted of Anthony Civitarese, soon to be released from jail having served his domestic battery sentence. Pitts attributed Hurt's injuries to "a cycle of abuse" of beatings and pleas for forgiveness and reconciliation. "Do not blame yourself and ask for help," he advised the battered. "Domestic violence is a crime."
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