Letter: Two lives, page B4, 147 words

On Aug. 30, The Salt Lake Tribune published two stories of murdered women: Stevie Shay Wilkerson, 26, and unidentified (since identified as Akosita Kaufasi, 42) on page B4 and given 147 words total for two lives taken.Violence to women and children is the greatest plague facing our world today; it destroys lives and the evil renews in children who witness or are victims. The Utah Domestic Violence Coalition report sobering statistics: annually 80 children witness murder or attempted murder of th