Q: I know a guy on probabtion who is getting abused by his wife. Can he call the cops on her and file against her??
He is afraid if he calls the cops for domastic violence that shes going to lie and he will get in more trouble. On an almost daily basis they have scream fights, if it escalates (which it usually does) she punches, kicks, and throws anything she can at him. Shes left brusies and welts on his face multiple times. They have a one year old son that all this happens in front of most of the time. She also will constant verbally abuse him as well, telling him that he is fat, ugly, worthless, a p.o.s, a horrible father, he needs to just put up with her physcial abuse because no one else could possibly want him, a coward, a b**ch, etc..
A:
His best choice would be to leave her.
If not, to secretly tape record her, and as she is hitting him, "narate for the recorder" what she's doing. Keep asking her to please stop hitting me… why did you push me etc. AND keep his cool, with calm voice..
This should do it. He can record on his phone, or better yet, get a small pocket size recorder, and don't let her know he's recording.
Gary J Dean, Attorney
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