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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 22, 2021 11:29:44 GMT
I guess I've gotten used to media outlets ignoring the obvious stuff............
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Texas man set wife on fire in 2014. Now he’s off to prison for assaulting her in 2019Domingo Ramirez Jr. Mon, June 21, 2021, 11:23 AM A Boyd man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for a 2019 assault on his wife, the same woman he poured gasoline on and set on fire in 2014. Mark Morgan Upchurch, 39, was sentenced last week in a Weatherford court after a Parker County jury found him guilty of assault/family violence. The charge was enhanced because of a previous conviction. Upchurch also was fined $10,000. In the Oct. 6, 2019, case, Upchurch went to the Springtown Police Department and told them that he was there to surrender because he had hit his wife. Springtown police went to a residence where they found Upchurch’s wife, who told them that he had pushed her to the ground after an argument and hit her in the face with an open hand. A police officer observed bruising and swelling on the the woman’s face. In the Parker County trial, jurors learned that Upchurch had been convicted of assaulting his wife in Taylor County and had been sentenced to a year in jail. Upchurch’s wife told jurors how in 2014 while she was in the back seat of a vehicle in Parker County, he poured gasoline on her and lit her on fire. He then closed the car door while she burned. She managed to get out and he hosed her off with water, but he never called 911 or took her to a hospital, according to a news release from the Parker County District Attorney’s Office. During the trial, prosecutors Susan Pruett and Travis Warner showed jurors photos of Upchurch’s wife while she was in the burn unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Prosecutors also had Upchurch’s wife step down and show them how the burns continue to scar her legs seven years later. “We indicted Mr. Upchurch in 2014 for aggravated assault for burning our victim and intended to give him a lengthy sentence commensurate with the awful crime he committed,” said Parker County District Attorney Jeff Swain in the news release. “However, not only did our victim not want to prosecute him, she also actively hid from our DA investigators for years on end.” Eventually, Upchurch was given three years in jail for the 2014 attack. Prosecutors were able to convince Upchurch’s wife to testify in last week’s trial.
“The fact that she went back to him after all of these assaults is truly a testament to the power of the cycle of domestic violence,” Pruett said. “Despite repeated assaults, for a multitude of reasons, she never wanted to leave or prosecute him. This is the reason that, like ours, prosecutors’ offices across Texas don’t base the decision to prosecute this kind of case solely on the desire of the victim.”
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Post by ant-mac on Jun 22, 2021 17:13:46 GMT
Is she hot?
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 22, 2021 22:55:17 GMT
Too soon!
Here's hoping for conjugal visits, though. That flame will never die out.
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Post by Prometheus on Jun 23, 2021 1:10:49 GMT
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 23, 2021 2:53:08 GMT
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Post by Prometheus on Jun 23, 2021 3:41:03 GMT
Meh.
While I understand why women love their bad boys, I can't understand why they stay with them when there is so much help available.
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 23, 2021 3:53:08 GMT
Meh.
While I understand why women love their bad boys, I can't understand why they stay with them when there is so much help available.
1. You can't understand? or won't?
2. We could start a whole nother thread on all that help available. 'War on Domestic Violence' perhaps? (PS: Chris Brown was in the news again)
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Post by Prometheus on Jun 23, 2021 4:25:50 GMT
Meh.
While I understand why women love their bad boys, I can't understand why they stay with them when there is so much help available.
1. You can't understand? or won't?
2. We could start a whole nother thread on all that help available. 'War on Domestic Violence' perhaps? (PS: Chris Brown was in the news again)
1. I can. They won't
2. Have a ball
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 23, 2021 4:35:40 GMT
1. You can't understand? or won't?
2. We could start a whole nother thread on all that help available. 'War on Domestic Violence' perhaps? (PS: Chris Brown was in the news again)
1. I can. They won't
2. Have a ball
1. There goes the Mr. Understanding Award for you
2. For the ladies everywhere......I'm deeply offended by that term now
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Post by Prometheus on Jun 23, 2021 4:40:58 GMT
1. I can. They won't
2. Have a ball
1. There goes the Mr. Understanding Award for you
2. For the ladies everywhere......I'm deeply offended by that term now
1. I don't know how I'll ever go on... huh? What did you say?
2. Sticking up for the ladies now? That's pretty ballsy.
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 23, 2021 4:46:15 GMT
1. There goes the Mr. Understanding Award for you
2. For the ladies everywhere......I'm deeply offended by that term now
1. I don't know how I'll ever go on... huh? What did you say?
2. Sticking up for the ladies now? That's pretty ballsy.
2. There's even an opportunity to stick up for all the ladies with balls of their own now
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Post by Prometheus on Jun 23, 2021 4:47:46 GMT
1. I don't know how I'll ever go on... huh? What did you say?
2. Sticking up for the ladies now? That's pretty ballsy.
2. There's even an opportunity to stick up for all the ladies with balls of their own now
Leave Caitlyn alone!
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 23, 2021 4:51:06 GMT
If I lived in Cali, she might even have my vote
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Post by Prometheus on Jun 23, 2021 4:56:57 GMT
If I lived in Cali, she might even have my vote
Feel free to move, register, and vote.
Cali needs dispatchers and I'm sure a bootstrapping man such as yourself, would find no shortage of opportunities for employment
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 23, 2021 5:04:37 GMT
If I lived in Cali, she might even have my vote
Feel free to move, register, and vote.
Cali needs dispatchers and I'm sure a bootstrapping man such as yourself, would find no shortage of opportunities for employment
It's Cali........ I might not even have to do all 3.
The cost of living there is awfully prohibitive, though. And I hear water is scarce.  |
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Post by Prometheus on Jun 23, 2021 5:07:41 GMT
Feel free to move, register, and vote.
Cali needs dispatchers and I'm sure a bootstrapping man such as yourself, would find no shortage of opportunities for employment
It's Cali........ I might not even have to do all 3.
The cost of living there is awfully prohibitive, though. And I hear water is scarce. You're aware that Cali is a very large state and that not every city and town is as expensive as LA or SanFran, right? |
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 23, 2021 5:14:06 GMT
You're aware that Cali is a very large state and that not every city and town is as expensive as LA or SanFran, right?
Now just who are you to tell people that they should move out of the large metropolises in order to find affordable living?
You remind me of a piece I saw today with the author comparing the 'affordability' of Chicago to New York. |
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Post by ant-mac on Jun 23, 2021 6:33:01 GMT
Too soon!
Here's hoping for conjugal visits, though. That flame will never die out.
What? That was seven years ago... I bet she's still smoking.  |
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Post by ant-mac on Jun 23, 2021 6:34:56 GMT
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Post by abbey1227 on Jun 23, 2021 7:53:53 GMT
Too soon!
Here's hoping for conjugal visits, though. That flame will never die out.
What? That was seven years ago... I bet she's still smoking.
There's still a glowing ember deep down.
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