Chapter 12 - Federal Agents Serve Warrants For Assault
While Julian sat miserably on a park bench outside the federal courthouse, a fresh set of legal documents was served.
Two detectives from the local precinct handed him a yellow-backed arrest warrant signed by a county superior court judge.
Charges: Aggravated domestic assault, child endangerment, unlawful imprisonment, and inflicting severe emotional trauma.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Julian muttered, holding the papers with trembling, unpolished fingernails.
“You beat your wife thirty times in front of your seven-year-old daughter while locking them in a freezing cellar,” the detective stated.
“That was a private family matter!” Julian shouted defensively, drawing stares from passing pedestrians on the sidewalk.
“In the state of New York, felony assault is a public matter that carries a mandatory prison sentence,” the detective replied flatly.
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The cold steel handcuffs clicked around his wrists for the second time in a week, sealing his permanent descent into disgrace.
He was loaded into the back of a barred police transport van, headed straight for a maximum-security holding facility.
