Woman drops assault charges against her husband

STUFF LIKE THAT DON'T HAPPEN IN VEGAS. The state automaticly takes over and presses charges. You can't say "I don't want to press charges" If you don't, they will.

Hi Ronaldino, This sort of thing happens all the time unfortunately as the woman are controlled by these husbands and falsely believe they love them. She needs to get out as each time the violence and abuse will get worse not better. There are places for these women to go but they fall for the I am sorry and will never do it again line. (until the next time) The sad fact of life is the next time might be that horrendous he manages to kill as most murders are by people the victim knows and many are from domestic violence. Lets hope she wakes up to this and is given extra strength to leave and also to press the charges. I pray she will. Ellie :D

i guess the wife was scared or something..thinking that after his husband will be out of prison she will suffer more as the result of the incarceration..or plainly the wife was threatened by the husband...or maybe she changes her mind and forgive the husband since he was drunk and everything and thinking that he will sober and never do it again...

That actually happens a lot. I think sometimes the women are just scared to press charges. Sometimes the men control the women and they don't press charges due to what they think the man will do to them or maybe have done to them.

in my homeland this happened, it is a poor underdeveloped country a lot of women can't afford education let alone get a decent job to make a living on their own, so they end up relying on their husbands - good or bad, they just decide to stay with him because life on the streets will be even harder for them especially if they have children but I don't know about your country or the country where this happened, surely if the country provides enough opportunity and protection to women and children, there must be something else that made her do this She might think it's love, or she might have made a mistake that made him turn a drinker and beat her up - but in such a country, would a man beating up a woman be allowed to walk free? because it will make other people think it's ok and more and more men would do it for whatever reason

I could remember my past after reading this discussion.I was a battered wife and couldn't file charges against him because i felt ashamed bringing our situation in public and besides in my thought by just keeping it to myself i was protecting my daughter's shame having a father like him.Until,i finally realized that its not good for my daughter to witness his father beating me.And everytime i see her i felt like a knife was stabbing in my chest looking at her so scared that her father might kill me.So,for the last time that he hurt me i decided to end our marriage and move on with my daughter.I felt so free.I felt like i was imprison from my entire marriage.But i never regreted anything that i had done to stop the pain not only for me but for my daughter as well.I guess the woman has her reason for dropping the charges against her husband.But if her husband doesn't change i hope one day she would realize that its time to move on without him.

That is a shame. I don't think that they should be able to drop the charges. Alot of woman do after they get scared and all but I feel that they shouldn't be allowed. It will just mean that it will still continue to happen again and again and maybe one time she won''t be so lucky to and not survive the beating..I hope it doesn't come to that.

Why would she drop the charges?There are two reasons that come to mind, love and fear. She loves him so she won't press charges or she is so afraid that he will get out and do worse .That's my guess.

Hi ronaldinu, It often happens that a wife will drop such charges against her husband. It does seem strange to me as well, but I suppose she has a reason, although I have no idea what it could be. We all think differently and maybe he promised that it would never happen again and she believed him. Blessings.

Hi ronald-this may seem hard for you to understand but I have also been in the same situation puite a few years ago and actually brought charges against my partner for breaking my jaw but at the eleventh hour I dropped the charges...I know you are thinking how stupid it was but the fact is I loved the man with all my heart and without the drink he was the lovliest man I had ever known and always lived in hope he would change...now I am no longer with him but what I am trying to say is the lady you are talking about obviously saw the same in her man even though it may seem stupid to others behind closed doors the woman is the only one who knows the real man...it is a hard situation to get out of as well and the fear of re-ocurrences may also of stopped her it did me a few times but finally made it out of the relationship yet still loves my ex and it made me very ill..it happens everywhere with always the same sort of results...littleowl

There are far too many situations like that my friend and it is sad that a man can beat his wife and that the cops can witness it but are powerless to do anything about it or to punish the man,I think the main reason wives do not file charges against husbands who beat them,is because they are either afraid of them,and are afraid they will beat them worse,or they are in denial because they love them and do not think that they mean to hurt them.

Hi there. I've heard a lot of cases like this and I can't figure out what the women were thinking about to endure this kinda husband. I mean, if you made a mistake of hurrying to marry this guy and didn't get a full understanding of the man's tempermament before marriage, why continue the mistake when he finally opened his Pandora's box which he had been trying to hide. Even he was drunk and may didn't know what he had done to his wife and he could be drunk again. Wow, poor wife. She maybe have a very long way to go in this miserable marriage.

Well not so sure about the situation those would be is like if they will continue to charged the Husband then maybe it is for Loved and they give them another chance to changed or it is the Man who only worked for them and that the woman has the situation on they cannot do when to go through after the incident.....

This woman needs help, snd fast. The next time may be the last time because he may actually kill her. Unfortunatelym this man is probably controlling as well as abusive. He probably has her believing that she cannot be with anyone else. He probably threatens her often too.It is very rare that a situation sucj as this will improve. By him doing this in front of others, and then her dropping charges, he now feels like he has complete control of her, and no one can stop him. Why didn't he get charged with verbal abuse on an officer? Surely he could have been charged and spent some time in jail for that. This may have given the woman time to get away if she was nudged in the right direction. I hope someone reaches out to this woman and helps her escape and start over real soon.

I have never been abused by anyone thank goodness so I cannot say why someone would drop charges against the person who assaulted him. Maybe she was afraid that when he gets out of jail he will kill her? I won't judge a battered wife. I feel that she did not press charges to keep her self alive. It is a matter of survival is what I am guessing.

Any woman who does not press charges, or drops charges against a man for that is just stupid. Sorry, but why would you want to put up with that kind of treatment? And you can bet, it's not the first time and won't be the last, that's for sure, now that he knows she won't press charges. However, I'm surprised the cops in this case didn't bring charges.

I'll tell you why. Because the woman is afraid of what the man will do to her later if she persists in her charges. That used to happen in the US a lot, but now most states have changed the laws and the woman is not the one filing charges, the state is. Therefore, she cannot drop the charges.

Hi ronaldinu, That really sickens me, the police should have brought charges anyway because the witnessed the beating, the law should change. The poor womam is probly scared of getting more beating if she press charges as he will only get a few months and will come out and beats her again so if the police charge him it won't be the wife's fault. Tamara

Its a hopefulness decision that the woman took. one reason may be that i think her husband threatened her. How can the court take action against her husband if the woman withdrawn her charges. I am shocked to know this.

there are many reason for the woman to consider dropping the charges. some of the reasons i can think of now are she dropped the charges for the sake of the children if they have children, or she dropped the charges because the man has apologised to her and sweet-talk her to do so. she may have faced pressure from friends, relatives etc on the matter. people will gossip that she is wicked to send her man to jail. whatever the reason are, she did it to keep the family intact and we should respect her decision. we are not in a position to help her decide on the matter as it is her family