On April 1, 2002, model/actress/whatever Tawney Kitaen attacked her husband, then-Cleveland Indians pitcher Chuck Finley, while the couple were driving home from a dinner. In September, Kitaen entered a plea agreement in which she didn’t admit guilt but entered a spousal battery counseling program.
After she successfully finishes the counseling program, the case will be dropped. Kitaen also must not have any contact with her husband and must make a $500 contribution to a battered-women’s shelter (hmmm . . . would a battered woman’s shelter have provide Finley with help after the April 1 attack by his wife?)
Of course one of the more interesting thing about the case is how little media attention it has received. Not that the case hasn’t been reported in newspapers and television — it has. But certainly not to the extent that it would have been if Finley had assaulted Kitaen.
In that case, we would have been treated to at least 2 or 3 in-depth looks at domestic assault cases by sports stars, replete with domestic violence activists repeating bogus statistics and expressing concern that society doesn’t take domestic violence seriously enough.
But since the perpetrator here was a woman and the victim a man (and a sports star at that), there was nothing like that.
Source:
Tawney Kitaen Agrees to Plea Bargain. Associated Press, September, 19, 2002.
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