Oh, Baby! The first rule to being a good father is to not hit the mother of your child while she is still pregnant with said child. Two cases here: In the first, morning had just arrived for the happy couple when the man “awoke and demanded [his girlfriend] return some money he gave her.” The woman, two months’ pregnant and not a fan of this type of pillow talk, refused to pay up. They argued, she got hit and he fled on foot. When police found the man, he was hiding in a closet at his mother’s house. In the second case, “it was visibly clear that the victim was several months’ pregnant.” Six months’ pregnant to be exact. The couple was arguing in an upstairs bedroom “about her cheating on him.” Whether or not the cheating had been recent is unclear, but the man got very upset, pushing the woman twice (the second time against a wall). The woman made her way downstairs with the man in pursuit. Once in the living room, the argument continued, and the man pushed her again and pulled her hair. In true scumbag fashion, the guy did all of this in front of the woman’s 11-year-old daughter.
It’s the Quiet Ones: A woman called police to report being attacked by her ex-boyfriend. Per the woman’s statement, she was sleeping in her bed when the defendant forced his way into her house through a side door, “approached her in the bedroom and grabbed her by the face.” He then “punched her on the left side of her face one time causing minor injuries.” Post punch, the man hightailed it back out the door to his waiting brown 10-speed and rode off. The woman stated that she did not know why her ex would do such a thing, and that “he did not say anything to her while committing the offense.”
While The Iron’s Hot: The teenage victim in this case was in her apartment watching a movie with her niece and nephew. The victim’s brother came into the room and “told the children that they needed to go to sleep and started lying them down on the bed.” The victim “told him to stop because it was the middle of the day and they were watching a movie.” The brother and sister then began arguing, with the confrontation turning violent. In addition to hitting his sister “between five and 10 times,” the brother picked up an iron he had been using to press his clothes and held it up to her face, yelling “I should burn your ass!” An older sister then arrived home, broke up the altercation and called police. When advised that he was being charged with a felony, the defendant protested, saying of the iron, “I put it up there but I didn’t touch her with it.”
From the files of the T.P.D.
This article appears in Oct 19-25, 2005.
