Victim tells police she can “handle the beatings”, abuser says “she’s on punishment, she’s not going anywhere”

39-year-old Braden Barry remains jailed on a $10,000 bond, charged with aggravated assault with serious bodily injury, after a neighbor noticed his girlfriend appeared to have been beaten. The victim was eventually able to whisper for someone to call the police, after Barry said his girlfriend was “on punishment” and not going anywhere.

Husband forced wife into prostitution in Nashville, became her pimp

40-year-old Jared Short is charged with domestic assault and trafficking for a commercial sex act near a school or park zone after police found that he forced his wife to become a prostitute through physical violence and the threat of leaving her homeless with their children.