KARE 11 Investigates: Woman charged after reporting domestic assault
Wendy Cushing told police a boyfriend beat her, but later recanted and blamed someone else. Should an abuse victim be charged with filing a false police report? Author: Brandon Stahl (KARE11), A.J. Lagoe, Steve Eckert Published: 5:30 PM CST February 11, 2021 Updated: 10:36 PM CST February 11, 2021
Afraid of what would happen if she was overheard calling police, Wendy Cushing texted 911.
“Hurry please,” she wrote.
She was visibly shaken and had multiple injuries when police arrived. An officer wrote she clutched his arm in constant fear as she was rushed to a hospital.
Once there, she gave police her initial account of what happened: She and her boyfriend were drinking at a friend’s apartment. That drinking turned into arguing; that arguing into yelling. Then he was on top of her, pinning her hips to the ground and wailing on her face with closed fists,