When domestic violence comes to mind many people think of a male abusing a female or a female defending herself from a male. Cases like the one below demonstrate what, slowly, more and more professionals are coming to realize and that is that domestic violence is often committed by women as well as men. In this case the male tried to leave (avoidance and not violent) and gets stabbed in the back and sustains life threatening injuries. And his attacker gets no jail time.
A CORK woman received a suspended three-year prison sentence yesterday for stabbing her husband in the back less than one year after the couple married.
Unemployed hairdresser Laura Egan (25) had previously been convicted of assault causing serious harm arising from the incident in which she attacked Gerry Egan with a carving knife at Castlepark Drive, Mallow, Co Cork, on June 14th last year.
Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that both parties had consumed large amounts of alcohol on the night in question, nine months after they had wed.
The marriage effectively ended after the attack, which left Mr Egan with life-threatening injuries. The court heard testimony that the couple had been out on the night leading up to the assault, with the defendant consuming about seven pints of cider and six glasses of wine.
An argument took place upon their return home, with Mr Egan eventually declaring that he was leaving. His wife’s response was to go to the kitchen, get a carving knife and stab him in the back. - Read the entire article here
Monday, August 3, 2009
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