This is a classic case of he said/she said.
Here are the facts that we know.
At some point, Patrick Chung’s son called his mother Chung’s ex-wife Cecilia Champion about his dad driving too fast, which scared him. Everyone agrees that the phone call took place. At that point, the boy’s mom waited for Chung outside of her home.
When Chung got there, all hell broke loose.
Here is her side of the story via the Boston Globe.
After Chung pulled into the mother’s driveway, the report said, Chung opened the rear driver’s side door to hug his son. As he did, the mother heard Chung say, “Your mom’s a piece of [expletive].”
When she went to get her son, the report said, Chung “turned to her and pushed her causing her to drop her phone and fall back on to the paved sidewalk striking her buttocks, lower back area, and her back and neck area.”
When she got up to confront Chung, the report said, he slapped her in the face.
She slapped Chung in retaliation, and he slapped her again in the face before picking her phone off the ground and eventually throwing it against the house, causing the screen to shatter, the report said.
Chung’s fiancee was with him at the time, and she tells a very different story of what went down when they pulled into the driveway.
Here is her recollection of events.
She said the mother had been waiting on the front steps when Chung arrived, pushing him out of the way to get to their son as he got out of the vehicle.
Chung immediately turned and returned to the driver’s seat, the fiancee said, but the mother chased him, attempting to close the vehicle’s door on Chung’s leg and punching him in the face three times.
Their son was in the back seat when the altercation occurred, Chung’s fiancee said. She said Chung did not strike the mother in the face.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Hopefully, they can find some middle ground in co-parenting because this had to be traumatic for the child. Chung has been released on $10k bail.
Flip the pages for Chung in court.
