It is likely, even though it can’t be proven that all the controversy swirling over domestic violence in the NFL was the driving force that caused Dwyer’s wife contact the police months after the alleged attack that led to her having a broken bone.
If what she is accusing Dwyer of is true, then that is a good thing because too many women who are subjected to domestic abuse are fearful about going to police. If the Ray Rice incident was the reason she decided to try to get Dwyer off the streets that is a positive. Dwyer will have his say in court, but for now here is what he is accused of courtesy of AZ.com.
Phoenix police arrested Dwyer, 25, on suspicion of aggravated assault on his 27-year-old wife and on suspicion of aggravated assault involving his 1-year-old son, a police spokesman said. The woman suffered a broken bone.
In the Dwyer case, police said the woman, whom they did not name, left the state with the child shortly after the incidents, which occurred on two separate days in late July.
She did not report them until Sept. 11, said Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman. He did not say why she came forward last week, and it could not be determined if she was prompted by the Rice controversy.
Investigators have spent the time since collecting medical records to verify some of the allegations and interviewing witnesses, some of whom reported the incidents to police as the arguments between the couple became heated at their southeast Phoenix home.
Police initially responded to the home on July 21 after neighbors called to report a disturbance, Crump said.
Dwyer has admitted his involvement in the incidents but denied the allegations of physical abuse, Crump said.
The woman, whom police identified as Dwyer’s wife and the mother of his child, answered the door and told officers that the argument was verbal and that Dwyer was not at the home, Crump said.
“They were convinced that the fight was verbal (and) that was called in by a third party,” Crump said. “She convinced them of that while he was hiding in the home.”
Investigators now believe Dwyer was hiding in the bathroom of the home until police left, Crump said.
The woman told police that Dwyer physically assaulted her. Dwyer and the woman got into another argument a day later, on July 22, and police believe he took the woman’s cellphone and threw it from the second floor of their home, Crump said.
Police believe that Dwyer, during the second incident, also took a shoe and threw it toward their 1-year-old child.
Investigators said Dwyer threatened to harm himself on the night the incident occurred in an attempt to keep the woman from contacting police, Crump said.
I was watching a show on Discovery ID about Stalkers and they said one thing that Stalkers or abusers do is threaten to harm themselves to make the victim feel guilty about leaving or calling the police, so that last part makes sense.
Dwyer’s wife left with the baby soon after the last alleged attack.
