Dad assaults daughter after he assaults wife (Frome, England, United Kingdom)

As the actions of dad STEPHEN ANTIS show us, there is no big distinction between battering your wife and battering your child. Violent people are violent period.

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Father assaults daughter after argument with wife
Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 10:56

A domestic incident turned violent when a husband and wife started arguing at their home in Selwood Crescent, Frome, on August 1, a court in Yeovil heard.

Stephen Anstis, 50, admitted assaulting his wife Anita and daughter Gemma when he appeared at South Somerset Magistrates' Court.

Crown prosecutor Alex Lane said Mrs Anstis had been out for the evening babysitting a grandchild and returned home to find her husband had been drinking.

Miss Lane said: "She went to bed and the defendant came into her bedroom, picked up her phone and threw it against the wall."

She said Anstis had pinned his wife down on the bed by the wrists and was shouting at her.

In her statement to police, Mrs Anstis said her husband had banged her head against the wall several times and was shouting, swearing and spitting at her.

She said she had managed to call her daughter, who arrived soon afterwards.

Mrs Anstis described how her husband had tried to head-butt her and she had ducked, causing her husband to split his lip on the top of her head.

Pottery and other household items were thrown around and there was blood on walls and doors.
Gemma told police she had received a call from her mother and had spoken to her father on the phone.

She said he was drunk and slurring his words. She could hear her mother getting hysterical in the background, so had driven immediately to her parents' home.

Gemma said her father had pinned her against a wall by the throat.

She said: "I was very worried for myself and my mum. I thought he was going to head-butt me."
Gemma said she had managed to get out of the house with her mother and they had gone to the police station to report the incident.

She said: "I am completely ashamed of the way my dad has acted in hurting myself and my mum, and I am frightened he will harm us again."

When interviewed by police, Anstis said his wife had been on his computer and accused him of looking at houses near the address of a woman he had been having an affair with some years previously.

He said they had later argued and she had bitten his lip, which had caused the bleeding.
Anstis agreed that his daughter had arrived later and there had been "some pushing and shoving", but he denied that he had grabbed her by the throat.

Defence solicitor Jeff Bannister said there were some differences in the accounts given by the two parties.

"But Mr Anstis accepts that his behaviour was completely out of order that evening," said Mr Bannister.

Magistrates said the matter was so serious that they would require a full report from the probation service.

They adjourned the case until Tuesday, September 8, and ordered Anstis to have no contact with his wife or daughter, and not to go to the address at Selwood Crescent, or to Crockham Cottage.