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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Man Beats Girlfriend With Power Cord, Belt, Hands, Police Say

It is the man's second domestic assault charged against the woman in the past six months.

A St. Charles man struck his girlfriend with a computer power cord, a belt and his hand on Saturday, St. Charles Police said. Ali Hadi Abaalharith, 25, of the 1600 block of Meyer Drive in St. Charles, was charged Monday with third-degree domestic assault. St. Charles Police said Abaalharith struck the woman with a leather belt five or six times and told her to stay upstairs in a bedroom or “something bad would happen to her.” Police gave the following account: She went downstairs to smoke a cigarette, and Abaalharith grabbed her by the hair and dragged her upstairs. Once inside the bedroom, he struck her about 15 times with the power cord. When he left, the woman called a friend and told her about it. The friend called police. When …

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