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A Bay Area police officer has been charged with masturbating in front of a family that called police during a fraught domestic violence call. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has charged Matthew Dominguez, 32, with a misdemeanor indecent exposure after responding to a restraining order call on the evening of April 21. An unidentified individual whose family put a domestic violence restraining order against him had allegedly violated the order and was at the family’s home, according to a statement of facts provided by the District Attorney’s Office. The mother, identified in the statement as Ms. S, the...

Major League Baseball announced a 324-game suspension for Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer on Friday, the equivalent of two full seasons and by far the most severe punishment handed out under the sport's domestic violence policy. Bauer promptly released a statement announcing he was appealing the suspension, thus becoming the first player to appeal punishment through MLB's domestic violence policy.

On March 23, 2020 the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence issued an Alert with a startling coronavirus claim: “Survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault are facing extreme danger and risk.” The Task Force also asserted, without providing any evidence, that “shelters and victim service organizations are now grappling with the unprecedented challenge of communally housing and providing services for survivors.” The United Nations issued even more alarming claims, predicting a “shadow pandemic of violence,” “alarming upsurge,” “one of the greatest human rights violations,” a “horrifying global surge” against women, and more. The UN Department of...

In 1977, 16-year-old Lliana Gay Adank and 17-year-old Eric Shawn Goldstrand, both North Eugene High School students, went fishing and had a picnic and never returned. They were later found shot to death. Forty-four years police say they have solved their homicide. This week, the Lane County Sheriff's Office announced they solved and closed the cold-case homicides of Adank and Goldstrand. In 1977, the victims' parents notified the Lane County Sheriff’s Office, who reportedly found Adank at the secluded picnic area, Goldstrand in the nearby brush a few hours later. “ The female victim had been sexually assaulted and both...

A woman marries a man when she trusts him and expects to have a lifelong relationship with him (and vice versa). If a woman has not reached a level of trust and commitment with a man to make him her husband, she should also not roam around the country with him. When a young woman is murdered, it is often because she is leaving a boyfriend. She is especially at risk if she is far away from family and friends. What I have written would have been considered common sense 60 years ago but is now attached as judgmental or...

The FBI agent credited with thwarting the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been fired from the agency after domestic violence allegations were levied against him. According to The Detroit News, Special Agent Richard Trask was fired last week while awaiting trial on charges of assault with intent to do bodily harm and allegations that he beat his wife’s head against a nightstand following an argument caused by a swingers party they attended. The firing of the law enforcement officer comes amid questions concerning potential misconduct by the FBI during the kidnapping investigation, and whether as many as...

The effort to paint California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder as a domestic abuser has failed. In reality, the whole thing was dead on the water – but as we have all learned, when a right-leaning candidate seems like they might defeat a Democrat in a high-profile race, you can always count on allegations of mistreating women.The Los Angeles Times reported that prosecutors “have declined to pursue a criminal complaint against Larry Elder for allegations of brandishing a gun and domestic abuse, in a 6-year-old case related to statements made by his former fiancée.”Los Angeles authorities refrained from pursuing a prosecution...

BRANDON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – An Oakland County man viciously beat his homeless girlfriend who lives in his barn after he went back on a sex-for-alcohol deal they agreed to, police said. Officials said the incident happened July 21 at a home in the 2100 block of Seymour Lake Road in Brandon Township. A 53-year-old woman told police she has known Vernon George Miller Jr., 58, of Brandon Township, for 40 years and that she was living in a pole barn on his property because she’s homeless. More at Link

The wife of Dwayne Haskins faces a domestic violence charge stemming from an alleged assault involving the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback that occurred in a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this month, according to multiple reports. Kalabrya Gondrezick-Haskins faces a felony charge of battery and domestic violence resulting in bodily harm stemming from the alleged altercation on July 3 at The Cosmopolitan. According to reports, Gondrezick-Haskins is accused of punching Haskins in the mouth, and other injuries Haskins reportedly suffered were "substantial in nature." Haskins, 24, had a split upper lip and a missing tooth, and he suffered other injuries to...

A Milwaukee woman has admitted to setting her sleeping husband on fire because she believed that he poisoned her chicken wings, police said. Tuhonsty Marie Smith, 29, confessed to authorities that she had waited for her spouse to fall asleep to light his head on fire earlier this month at their home in the Enderis Park neighborhood, news station WDJT reported.

A UK woman was sentenced Tuesday to at least 23 years in prison for murdering her housemate who spurned her sexual advances — and then dismembering the corpse with a saw and stuffing the pieces in suitcases, according to a report. Gareeca Gordon, 28, stabbed Phoenix Netts, also 28, four times in their Birmingham home on April 16, 2020, the Evening Standard reported. After murdering Netts, Gordon deceived her friends and relatives via text messages, emails and voice messages that she had moved to London. When she was nabbed beside a quarry in Coleford about a month after the horrific...

Surveillance footage shows the shocking moment when a woman stalked her ex-girlfriend and shot her in the back of the head in broad daylight in Brooklyn Wednesday. Footage shows the horrifying moment when Latisha Bell, 38, sprinted up behind Nichelle Thomas, 52, and shot the woman as she headed into a bodega store on the corner of St. Marks place in Park Slope at 1pm. The two women had previously been in a relationship but it was not immediately clear why the two broke up, police sources told the New York Daily News.

Fox News host Dana Perino broke down into tears on Friday as she ended an interview with a domestic violence survivor in Illinois whose 18-month-old son was shot to death by her estranged husband after he was released from jail on a cashless bond. Tragically, the killer was supposed to be in court at the time. Speaking through her tears as she composed herself, Perino said to co-host Tray Gallagher: “Trace, I don’t think I’ve ever cried on TV. That was really hard.”Fox News host Dana Perino broke down into tears on Friday as she ended an interview with a...

The most violence-ridden cities in American are run by Democrats. Why then, should they be trusted to lead an entire nation of more than 330 million people? Democrats have recently joined forces in blaming President Trump of fanning the flames of violence. While this is nothing new, it is concerning evidence of a pattern among the left. More particularly, the party that seeks to lead the nation is unwilling to take responsibility for the misdeeds of its members and is always looking to blame others. Americans should not trust this party to lead them.As reported by The Hill, Rep. Karen...

At the height of New York’s coronavirus lockdown, domestic violence in the five boroughs skyrocketed, data show. When the pandemic first laid siege, experts predicted that mandatory lockdowns and soaring unemployment would cause a rise in household abuse, and figures now bear them out — with domestic violence reports at some agencies doubling and even tripling in the past few months. “We’ve never been busier,” lamented Nechama Bakst, senior director of the Met Council’s family-violence program. “We have seen people who never experienced violence starting to experience violence, and people who have experienced violence experience worse violence.” Typically, the non-profit...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Authorities believe a Connecticut man charged this week with murdering his ex-girlfriend last year crushed her body after she died, set it on fire and placed her body parts in garbage bags, according to an arrest warrant affidavit

Hours before Albuquerque police detained alleged members of an armed civilian group when a protest erupted in gunfire Monday, the mayor of New Mexico's largest city announced that unarmed social workers – not officers – would now respond to certain 911 calls. The decision came as Black Lives Matter advocates to defund police departments in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody after Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller announced that the city would create a “first-of-its-kind”...

Tolerance for criminality and political sabotage has led America into one of it's darkest moments in decades. Do we have the will to unite once more? Are we at war? Did we pass that invisible line beyond which the country cannot hold? After everything the Democrats and the media have put us through since the election of Donald Trump, is it even possible to imagine peaceful reconciliation and common national purpose?For a majority of Americans, the answers to those three questions are as obvious as they are dispiriting. That so many believe the country has fallen, is falling, or will...

On The Ingraham Angle Wednesday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham blasted the media for blaming President Trump for the bizarre case of a man who died from ingesting fish tank cleaner in March, supposedly thinking it was Hydroxychloroquine. But Ingraham highlighted a recent report in the Washington Free Beacon which found there may be more to this story than initially reported, even as the local police open an investigation. After playing clips of CNN and MSNBC journalists eagerly blaming Trump for Gary Lenius, of Mesa, Arizona’s death, she sighed, saying, "That is just despicable.” Ingraham then brought on Free Beacon...

MYRTLE POINT, Ore. - Melissa Morris was arrested on New Year’s Eve after she told deputies she punched her boyfriend in the face for leaving her dog outside in the rain. Police say they responded to a call of a suspected assault where they were met by the Oregon woman’s boyfriend, James, who said she punched him in the face two times. Investigators say they saw a marble-sized welt and scratch mark on James’ right eyebrow. James told police that he was talking to Morris when she began hitting him. Morris was then taken into custody on a domestic...