Monday, November 12, 2012
Ventrell Jenkins allegedly beat his girlfriend until her face was unrecognizable and she was unconscious.
Ventrell Jenkins, a former University of Kentucky Wildcat and current Canadian football player, was arrested on criminal domestic violence charges on Nov. 7. But it's what he said while he allegedly beat his fiancee, Deidre Hudson, that has gotten attention. The State reports that deputies arrived to Jenkins yelling 'I love you' while he was punching Hudson in the face. Jenkins' pit bull also bit three deputies during the struggle which ended when Jenkins and the dog were both shot multiple times with a Taser, the Herald Online reports. After being shocked, Jenkins grabbed the Taser from the deputy. He was later subdued by three deputies, three pairs of handcuffs and one set of leg restraints, the Herald Online reports. The dog is being …
Friday, January 6, 2012
Deputies say the man threatened to kill his girlfriend at an apartment complex in St. Andrews.
Richland County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a man they say hit his girlfriend in the head with a beer bottle and threatened to kill her. Jason Tyler Boykin, 24, is wanted for criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nauture, kidnapping and malicious injury to property. Deputies responded to an aggravated assault call at Willow Creek Apartments on Fernandina Road. The victim told deputies Boykin hit her in the back of the head with a beer bottle after she asked him why he had broken several glasses on a table in the living room. Boykin then pushed the victim against the wall, threw her to the floor, choked her, held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her and himself, according to the sheriff's department …
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
South Carolina joins Nevada and Louisiana in Top 10 states where men murder women.
The Violence Policy Center released a report on Tuesday that ranks South Carolina as No. 7 in the nation for states with high rates of murder of women by men. This is a slight up-tick from the previous report in 2010 that listed the state as No. 8. Nevada, with a rate of 2.70 per 100,000, ranked first for the second year in a row. South Carolina is at 1.79 per 100,000. The annual report "When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2009 Homicide Data" details national and state-by-state information on female homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender. The study uses the most recent data available from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report and is released each year to coincide with …
Savanah
10:03 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Easy to understand, informative article! Not only is it imperative to read the article above, but also the comments below. It's unfortunate but hardly uncommon for men to become aggressive, insulting, and combative when faced with facts about the male sex that don't scream, "YOU'RE THE GODS OF THIS UNIVERSE!!" Either way, kudos to all the responses and the original article. Don't let the Joes of … more ›