{"id":140098,"date":"2021-09-28T23:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=140098"},"modified":"2021-09-28T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:26:03","slug":"man-beats-wife-of-three-years-after-she-facetimed-having-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/man-beats-wife-of-three-years-after-she-facetimed-having-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Man beats wife of three years after she FaceTimed having affair"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Maryland man brutally assaulted his wife of three years after she FaceTimed him while having sex with another man inside a car parked near a Pennsylvania hotel.<\/p>\n
According to a felony complaint, 34-year-old\u00a0William Atkinson received the series of explicit calls from his spouse on September 21, and immediately enlisted a friend to drive him to the hotel’s parking lot to confront her.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Upon arriving at the Best Western in Somerset, Atkinson found his 32-year-old wife and her alleged lover –\u00a0both of whom were not named in the report – and proceeded to punch and kick her, police said.<\/p>\n
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William Atkinson, 34,\u00a0brutally assaulted his wife outside a Pennsylvania hotel after she sent him a series of explicit FaceTime calls of her engaging in sex acts with another man, cops said<\/p>\n
Atkinson struck the man as well, who then ‘fled the scene,’ according to the report.<\/p>\n
The beating left the woman – whom police described as ‘extremely intoxicated’ and uncooperative with officers upon their arrival at the scene – with severe bruising, and bleeding profusely from her face, nose, and mouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What’s more, she was described as ‘struggling to breathe and crying for help.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The calls, according to Atkinson, were intended to ‘egg him on’<\/p>\n
After being apprehended by police, an angry Atkinson explained that the pair had been ‘egging him on’ with the vulgar video calls.<\/p>\n
Atkinson then told investigators that he had only hit his wife with an open hand, and not with a closed fist or much less kicks – but a witness reported seeing him ‘actively kicking’ the woman in the face.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police recovered one of Atkinson\u2019s shoes from the scene – with one being soaked in blood, cops said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police did not obtain a statement from the victim.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, however, the person who initially reported the assault in a 911 call told officers that they had heard a gun go off amid the scuffle – though ‘no witness saw who had a gun.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
A pistol was recovered by police at the crime scene, from the vehicle that Atkinson arrived in – but no magazine or rounds were found in the weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officers also found a knife and stun gun at the scene, which Atkinson alleged belonged to his spouse.<\/p>\n
Atkinson was charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment, a felony and a misdemeanor, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, another court filing for a case several years ago indicates that Atkinson’s wife is the one with the alarming criminal past.<\/p>\n
In 2016, the unnamed woman was cuffed for attempted murder after an argument with a boyfriend ended in gunfire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man was not hit in the attack, after she fired a single shot inside a residence in Cumberland, Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Atkinson’s wife later pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment and was sentenced to two years of probation.<\/p>\n
It is unclear whether Atkinson was the woman’s boyfriend at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He is now being held in the county jail in lieu of $30,000 bail for his current case, and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n