Man attacks wife during divorce hearing in judge's chambers

[mfcorey1]

FORT LAUDERDALE—
An ex-Marine viciously attacked his wife during a final divorce hearing in a judge's chambers Friday morning, splitting her lip, causing her head to swell and bruise and leading to her hospitalization, authorities said.

Paul Henry Gonzalez Jr., 28, of Fort Lauderdale, had to be subdued with a stun gun and is being held at the Main Jail on charges of felony battery, domestic violence and resisting arrest without violence, according to a police report.

Catherine Ann Scott-Gonzalez, 23, also a former Marine, was rushed to Holy Cross Hospital where she is bruised and swollen but in stable condition with facial fractures, a torn lip and a broken nose, said her boyfriend, Brennan Worsencroft, 30.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-divorce-court-attack-20110415,0,7930973.story

[Paradoxical]

1. War teaches you to fight, not to reason.

[Bucky]

2. Yes, that explains why spousal abuse is so much higher among veterans than non-vets

This post was not intended as a factual statement. (PS, it's not true)

[Enrique]

3. this is why people need lawyers

a lawyer would have advised him not to do this.

Dunleavy said Gonzalez, who did not have an attorney, balked at paying child support and having a judge tell him when he could or couldn't visit his children and stormed out of the chambers. He returned to shout something about not obeying any orders, Dunleavy said, and again retreated.

[hobbit709]

4. Think that would have a difference?

He probably would have lost it even with a lawyer.

[siligut]

5. Guy didn't seem to even understand, that in this world, you get what you pay for

And beating her front of witnesses, especially a judge in a courtroom, the guy has anger issues. A brain with that kind of anger doesn't reason well. Seems to be a frontal lobe problem IIRC.

[hobbit709]

6. He would have had to pay support no matter what.

And the visitation rules probably wouldn't have been much different.

His real problem was his anger.