After a long day at work a woman stops by the store to pick up some groceries.  She arrives home and walks up to her apartment building with her arms full of grocery bags.  As she approaches the outside door of her building a man that she doesn’t recognize opens the door from the inside.  The man sees her and asks if she needs help carrying the bags.  The lady tells him no but he insists.  He say something like, “if my mother new I let a woman carry bags and I didn’t help she would not think too highly of me”.  The woman gives in and gives the man a bag and he follows her upstairs to her apartment door.  She unlocks the door and the man tells her that he will help her in to the apartment.  She tells him no but he promises he will just set the bags down and then go.

Once in the apartment the man rapes the woman but she is able to escape before he kills her.

What Would You Have Done?

This story is based on a story out of Gavin De Becker’s book “The Gift of Fear”.