Details of the domestic violence case we began discussing yesterday..

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Bear with me folks, I know the domestic violence angle may not make sense to you in the context of the mortgage fraud stories we've been discussing but I promise it will all make sense by the end of the week.  

Yesterday we left off discussing a domestic violence case that a notorious mortgage fraudster was involved in, today we found the case file and copied it.  Here's the details of what happened according to the police report...

In case you can't read the excerpt from the report, here's the text...

Victim and defendant who lived together for four years were involved in a verbal altercation which escalated into a physical altercation by the defendant.  According to the victim, the defendant began screaming and grabbed her by the arm a started shaking her.  He then proceeded to grab her by the hair and slammed her against the wall.  Once her head hit the wall the victim ran to the room where she attempted to call the police defendant followed, and he took the phone from her impeding the victim to call police.  Defendant then grabbed victim once again and threw her on the couch at which time the victim began screaming and defendant placed a pillow over her face to make her be quiet.  The defendant then stated "I am sorry" and she stopped screaming.  Victim asked for her phone back and the defendant gave it back to her at which time she called the police.  On today's date the defendant was located and arrested.

Oh boy.  Slamming her head against the wall then grabbing her, throwing her down and smothering her with a pillow?  That sounds like some serious shit, at least to me it sounds like this attack could even be construed as an instance of attempted murder.  Regardless the state chose to file the following charges...

Tampering with a victim and simple battery?  Not exactly the way I'd interpret what happened but then again I'm not a cop.  Regardless of how the state decided to proceed against the wife beater, the allegations seem to be pretty serious and considering how stringent the state of Florida's domestic violence laws are, you would think the state gave the offender a proper punishment for this heinous act.  You would think so, but that's hardly what happened...