Off-duty JPD officer accused of rape

Jackson police are investigating an allegation that one of the department’s patrol officers raped a woman at her apartment while the officer was off-duty.

The officer’s name was not released Thursday because no charges have been filed against him.

A 39-year-old woman reported that the officer raped her inside her Jackson apartment on April 4, according to Jackson Police Chief Gill Kendrick. The woman told investigators the officer she accused of rape is an acquaintance of hers.

On the day the incident was reported, the officer was put on paid administrative leave while the investigation is conducted by the Jackson Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, Kendrick said.

“Once we’ve completed the investigation, initially we will take it to the district attorney general for discernment as to what direction we go from there,” Kendrick said.

Kendrick said he is unsure of how long the investigation might take.

“I don’t know exactly how many things might comprise the investigation, whether or not there’s any serology, anything like that, that we have to wait for to get a response back,” Kendrick said.

Kendrick said the officer has had no prior problems in his record with the department. The officer has worked there less than two years, which is the probationary period for new officers.

Police said no further comments can be made at this time

Woman says she was assaulted by Detroit Police officer

Julie Banovic

(WXYZ) - A Detroit Police officer charged with sexual misconduct while responding to a 9-1-1 call was in court today.

During the preliminary exam, the victim gave graphic detail about what she said happened the night of the alleged assault.

Detroit Police Officer Deon Nunlee sat at the defense table looking down at the ground while he listened to the victim describe in detail how she said Nunlee made her massage his private parts even though she told him to stop.

“His pants are still on.  It was his uniform and my hands are just rubbing his private area,” said the victim.

The alleged assault happened last October when Officer Nunlee and his partner responded to a domestic dispute between the victim and her boyfriend.

The prosecutor asked the victim how that made her feel.

“Disbelief,” said the victim.

The victim said she was showing Officer Nunlee where her boyfriend damaged the upstairs when Officer Nunlee grabbed her wrists and forced her to touch him and told her to like it.

“Act like I enjoy it.  Act like I like it.  Do it like I enjoy it,” said the victim.

The prosecution asked the victim how that made her feel.  “Disgusting,” said the victim.

The two were only inches from her 6-year-old son sleeping in bed. Nunlee’s partner was downstairs questioning the victim’s boyfriend.

“Then he would whisper to me and told me to shut up and be quiet and don’t say anything,” said the victim.

The victim said at one point her 6-year-old son woke up.

“He wakes up and he tells my son go back to sleep now, go back to sleep,” said the victim.

The victim said she and Nunlee went back downstairs and then he made her go back upstairs. That’s when the two really struggled.

“Officer Nunlee pulls my pants down and we were tousling over my pants.  He’s pulling them down and I’m pulling them up.  Officer Nunlee is. I’m pulling them up and he’s pulling them down.  And he squats down on his knees,” said the victim.

The victim said that’s when Nunlee licked around her private part.

“He then comes up on one leg and he pulls my shirt up and I’m just telling him to stop and he’s just telling me to be quiet.,“ said the victim.

Defense attorney  Antonio Tuddles tried to discredit the victim because she didn’t tell anyone of the assault until later and didn’t tell police until the next day.

“You understood that another officer was downstairs badge and gun.  You understood that right?” asked Tuddles.

The victim responded with a yes.

“You understood your boyfriend who house you were living in right?   You understood that didn’t you?” asked Tuddles.  The victim responded yes.  “You choose not to do that,” said Tudles.

Nunlee is charged with three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of assault with intent to penetrate and one count of misconduct in office.

Nunlee and his attorney refused to speak after court.  Nunlee will be back in court in May.

Nunlee has been suspended without pay.

Detroit police officer accused of sexually assaulting domestic violence victim retains new attorney

By Gus Burns 

  

DETROIT, MI - The preliminary hearing for a Detroit police officer accused of sexually assaulting a woman while on a police call at the victim's home was pushed back a week after the officer took on a new attorney.

Officer Deon Nunlee, 40, is accused of assaulting the victim of an alleged domestic dispute. He was scheduled for a preliminary hearing this week, but is now scheduled back in court on April 25, according to Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy's office.

Nunlee, along with his partner, responded to a domestic dispute at a home on the 16000 block of Asbury in Detroit on Oct. 30. Prosecutors allege Nunlee assaulted the woman after taking her upstairs in the home. Details of the assault have not been made public.

Police Chief James Craig said in March this is not proper protocol for an officer.

Nunlee also allegedly told the woman he would return to her house at 7 a.m. Commander Johnny Thomas of the Process Standards Bureau, the section that reviewed the allegations, said he never returned to the house.

The alleged victim under went a "rape-kit" examination after the Detroit Police Department was notified of the allegations.

Nunlee was suspended without pay after DNA evidence analyzed by the Michigan State Police Crime Lab linked him to the victim, according to prosecutors.

Detroit police say they received the results on Feb. 10, though state police spokesman Shanon Banner said Crime Lab records show results were released more than two weeks earlier on Jan. 22.

Nunlee is charged with three counts of second-degree criminal sexual assault, sexual assault with intent to penetrate and misconduct in office.

He paid $5,000, or 10 percent of the judge-ordered $50,000 surety bond, and was released after his March arraignment.

Nunlee has "minor" infractions in his disciplinary file, "but nothing near this degree," Thomas said last month.

3 more North Port Police officers suspended (Rape)

By Shelby Webb

NORTH PORT - Three more officers have been suspended from the North Port Police Department, but the department's leaders would not say who they are or why they are being investigated.

According to emails obtained by the Herald-Tribune, North Port Police Chief Kevin Vespia notified one officer of his or her paid suspension on March 31 and notified two others on April 10.

In refusing to name the officers, North Port officials cited a Florida law that governs investigations into law enforcement officials. They redacted the officers' names from the emails requested by the Herald-Tribune.

It was that same law the department says prevented authorities from releasing the names of officers Melanie Turner and Ricky Urbina when they were suspended and criminally investigated for allegedly handcuffing a woman at a party and raping her on March 1. Their names were only released on March 20, after a judge signed arrest warrants for both officers.

Other North Port police officers were at that party and it is unclear whether the most recent suspensions are tied to that case.

Turner was arrested on one count of principal to a sexual assault and one count of false imprisonment. She posted bail and remains on unpaid administrative leave as the North Port Police Department conducts an internal investigation into the incident.

Urbina was charged with sexual assault and false imprisonment, but he shot and killed himself March 20 as authorities were on their way to arrest him.

The officers who were recently put on paid suspension were told to turn their badges, identification cards, department vehicles and department-issued fire arms.

Turner has an arraignment hearing scheduled for April 25.

Bail hearing set for ex-cop charged with rape

By Chris Raia

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) – A former Pawtucket police officer who resigned last year amid allegations of rape and domestic assault is due back in court on Thursday.

Stephen Ricco, 41, is accused of sexually and physically assaulting his girlfriend last Thanksgiving. He was indicted by a grand jury on one count of first-degree domestic sexual assault, one count of strangulation and two counts of simple domestic assault.

He pleaded not guilty to those charges last week and was ordered held without bail.

Ricco will be back in court Thursday afternoon for a bail hearing.

His alleged victim claims Ricco choked, bit and raped her last November.

Ricco, a 15-year veteran of the Pawtucket Police Department before his retirement last June, faced similar charges last year. He was arrested last February and pleaded no contest last April to a single count of domestic disorderly conduct. A charge of simple assault and two additional counts of domestic disorderly conduct were dismissed by the prosecution.

He was sentenced then to anger management counseling and community service.

San Jose Police Officer Accused of Rape Pleads Not Guilty

A San Jose police officer pleaded not guilty Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court to raping a woman after driving her to a hotel to separate her from her husband in a domestic dispute last September.

Geoffrey Graves, 38, entered the not guilty plea, waived his right to a preliminary hearing within 10 days and Judge Hector Ramon set Graves' next court appearance for May 13.

Deputy District Attorney Carlos Vega told Ramon that the prosecution would provide discovery information it has in the case to Graves’ defense lawyer Darlene Bagley by that date.

Graves, wearing a dark suit, answered "not guilty" in answer to Ramon's question about a plea and then left the courtroom accompanied by four people in addition to Bagley, who said her client would have no comment.

The defendant had earlier waived his right to a preliminary hearing within 60 days of his arraignment on the single count of felony forcible rape.

Graves is accused of raping a woman inside her room at a San Jose hotel after he drove her there following an argument that the woman had with her husband last Sept. 22.

The case is now in the discovery phase, the process of gathering and turning over information relevant to the criminal case, Vega said.

The defendant remains free on $100,000 bail since his March 10 arrest. He was arraigned at the Hall of Justice in San Jose on March 24.

Graves' accuser, who is not being identified, did not report the alleged sexual assault until Oct. 15, when she related the incident to police while she was being booked on suspicion of DUI in San Jose, according to Vega.

"During the course of the arrest of the DUI, the statement (about Graves) was made," Vega said.

She pleaded no contest, legally the same as a guilty plea, to the DUI charge in January and received a standard sentence, including serving weekends with a work detail, Vega said.

Her reporting of the rape charge had no impact on the DUI case, Vega said.

"Any notion that she somehow trumped up an accusation like this in an effort to get out a DUI is simply illogical, by the mere fact that at her arraignment, she pled guilty," he said.

Vegas said that the fact that she talked about the alleged rape during her booking on the DUI charge would be "a mere piece of the puzzle" in the sexual assault case.

According to police, at about 2 a.m. on Sept. 22, Graves responded while on duty with a second officer to an argument between the victim and her husband, who both had been consuming alcohol at their San Jose residence.

The female told officers she wanted to spend the night at a hotel where she used to work. Graves drove her there at about 2:30 a.m.

According to prosecutors, Graves returned about 15 minutes later, knocked on the door, went into the room, threw the woman on the bed, took off parts of his uniform and her clothing and raped her.

According to Vega, the officer had phoned in his position to police earlier and then left for about 35 minutes.

Graves, a Gilroy resident has been placed on administrative leave from the San Jose Police Department.

Ramon has ordered Graves not to be within 300 yards of the victim.

If convicted of the charge, Graves could be sentenced to three, six or nine years in prison under state sentencing guidelines, Vega said.

Retired officer’s rape trial comes to an end

Attorneys presented closing arguments Thursday in the trial of a retired police officer accused of raping a child.

Willie Toney is charged with one count of rape first degree and two counts each of sodomy first degree and enticing a child to enter a vehicle, house, etc. for immoral purposes in conjunction with a pair of incidents that took place in early 2008. He was formally charged in August 2012.

The defense presented most of its witnesses Thursday, before resting the case shortly before 4 p.m. The list included former Mayor Jimmy Lunsford and current Troy Police Chief Jimmy Ennis.

Ennis was one of the investigators called upon by then-Chief of Police Anthony Everage to conduct an internal investigation in 2009.

“We included in our investigation that it could not have happened the way it as described on tapes,” Ennis said. “I don’t believe Mr. Toney did it.”

He did say he believed someone had sexually abused the victim. When the prosecution asked why Troy PD had not investigated the crime to find the guilty party, Ennis said it was not Troy’s case. The Alabama Bureau of Investigations was investigating the matter.

Stephanie Billingslea, assistant Attorney General, started the prosecution’s closing arguments by sharing a first-person narrative that summed up what the victim had said since coming forward, including the detailed account of the crimes. Except for some minor details, [the victim’s] story has been consistent for six years, the prosecutor said.

The closing listed what the prosecution had to prove in order to convict Willie Toney of rape first degree: he had to be over the age of 16 and had to engage in a sexual act with someone under age 12. Billingslea called the Troy Police Department a “band of brothers who went through great lengths to protect their brother. That’s not the purpose of an internal investigation. What the Troy Police Department did is a travesty. It’s disgraceful.”

The defense argued that one of the medical exams used as evidence was done in August, 2008, more than five months after the crime. Another issue taken with the state’s case was its unwillingness to turn over a jacket the victim had worn the day of one of the alleged rapes.

The defense then listed what it described as the lies the victim told during interviews conducted by the Child Advocacy Center. “You have to decide who is credible,” said defense attorney Lewis Gillis.

Gillis told the jury that if there were any doubt in their minds, they would have to return a verdict of not guilty.

Arguments lasted past 7 p.m. and the jury opted to start deliberating Thursday night rather than wait until after the holiday weekend.

Former police officer convicted of 2011 murder

Jimmy Dac Ho to be sentenced to life in prison for killing of Boynton escort

By Marc Freeman, Sun Sentinel

Grief-stricken mother Sandi Cooper says she waited three years, two months and 17 days for the justice she finally received Thursday: A Palm Beach County jury found former police officer Jimmy Dac Ho guilty of killing her 29-year-old daughter, Sheri Carter.

Moments after the 12 jurors delivered the first-degree murder verdict and left the courtroom, Cooper stood with Kerry Carter, the victim's father, and thanked the jury and prosecutors Adrienne Ellis and Takisha Richardson.

Then she turned toward Ho, 51, and condemned the former Florida Atlantic University officer who entered Sheri Carter's Boynton Beach apartment on Jan. 31, 2011 to pay for sex, but wound up handcuffing the escort and shooting her twice.

“You made the conscious decision ... to end our daughter's life by brutally torturing and murdering her,” Cooper said. “You, Mr. Ho are not God, so you do not have the right to end her life nor anybody else's. You stole my daughter's future, and you robbed me of mine, my only child.”

The jury's decision followed about 51/2 hours of deliberations, which included watching for the second time a video of Ho's confession to police just hours after the shooting — while Carter still clung to life. The aspiring law school student, who advertised her escort services on the website Backpage.com, was taken off a ventilator and died Feb. 4, 2011.

Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley said Ho will be sentenced May 2 to life in prison for the murder charge. Ho showed no sign of emotion during the reading of the verdict and Carter's parents' remarks; he opted not to testify during his weeklong trial.

The defendant — who last year rejected a plea deal for a 30-year term — also was convicted of kidnapping with a firearm because he handcuffed Carter. That charge will be addressed at the sentencing hearing. The defense already is planning an appeal.

“I thought she was going to go for a knife,” Ho told detectives on the video. He claimed he acted in self-defense, after Carter raged when he changed his mind and refused to pay her $160 for sex that didn't happen.

“I just wanted to come out of there alive because she was going crazy,” Ho said.

Assistant Public Defender Elizabeth Ramsey said Ho's revolver accidentally fired during a struggle. She asked the jury to reject a prosecution based entirely on speculation and lacking proof the shooting was premeditated.

“There is nothing in this case [to show] Mr. Ho went there with the intention of kidnapping Ms. Carter or killing her,” Ramsey said.

But Assistant State Attorney Richardson argued the career cop got mad because someone he viewed as a “lowly prostitute” rejected him, so he cuffed her and “pumped two shots into her.”

“It defies logic, reason, common sense to think this was accidental,” Richardson said during closing statements Wednesday. “He most certainly intended her death.”

Kerry Carter told the judge of the joy he experienced watching his daughter take her first breath 32 years ago, and the horror of seeing her “slowly die a horrible death” as a result of a “senseless” shooting.

“There's no amount of punishment that's ever going to bring my daughter back,” he said after the verdict. “But I'm glad to see justice was served here today.”

Carter was raised in Boca Raton and later graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa, with a bachelor's degree in English literature. At the time of her death, she was studying for the Law School Admission Test and charging escort customers for sex to pay for her tuition.

Ho's attorney labeled Carter a “vivacious” prostitute who had plastic surgery, drove a Lexus and owned designer handbags and clothing. No one disputes Ho met Carter through her Internet ad and he was off-duty at the time.

“He was there to have sex with her in exchange for money,” Richardson said.

After the shooting, Ho left Carter's Casa Loma Boulevard residence at 4:56 p.m.; the exact time is known because Ho was seen on video surveillance.

Ho tossed the gun in a canal, drove to his Boynton Beach home, met live-in girlfriend Margarita DeJesus, and they went out for a dinner of nachos, ribs and beer, according to trial testimony. Police used phone records to quickly identify Ho as a suspect.

The now-convicted murderer worked in law enforcement for about 20 years. His career included work for Lauderhill police, and a two-year stint with Broward Sheriff's Office, which fired him in 2004 after he was charged with battery against his wife.

During the trial, Ramsey and Assistant Public Defender Allie Menegakis accused Boynton Beach police of shoddy work, including a failure to recover one of the bullets from Carter's bedroom, and the destruction of video taken of Ho in a police station holding cell.

Prosecutors contended there's nothing on the missing video that would have helped Ho's defense.

And Rob Eichorst, senior crime scene investigator for Boynton Beach Police, testified Tuesday he conducted an exhaustive search for the projectile that hit Carter in the abdomen and exited her body.

Chief Assistant State Attorney Ellis showed the jury the bullet that was recovered from Carter's neck during an autopsy. The jury also got to view Ho's handcuffs and gun.

Cooper, Carter's mother, has filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit seeking damages from FAU.

Attorney Michael Bernstein wrote in the suit that Ho's “actions must be deemed to have occurred within the course and scope of his employment as an FAU police officer.”

The university denied having any liability.

“The actions of Jimmy Dac Ho had nothing to do with his employment with Florida Atlantic University as a police officer and were solely personal in nature,” attorney Stephen F. Radford, Jr., wrote on Feb. 24.

Abusive San Diego Cop Allegedly Protected by Department for Almost 20 Years

San Diego swore in a new police chief last week, and it took about two days for a scandal with 20-year-old roots to explode in the department.

In late 2011, former cop Anthony Arevalos was convicted of sexual battery against 13 women over a period of months. He was sentenced to eight years in jail. The first complaint against him surfaced publicly in March 2011, but testimony in a civil lawsuit against the city this year suggests that police officials knew about Arevalos' assaults dating back 20 years and hid it from prosecutors and the public.

The first allegation against Arevalos came in February 2010 from a woman who said the officer sexually assaulted her. The district attorney declined to file charges in that case, but prosecutors said another woman complained eight months later that Arevalos groped her during a traffic stop. In between the two incidents, the officer continued his behavior.

Arevalos' career ended in March 2011 when he was accused of another assault at a traffic stop. The department fired him and criminal prosecution began. Questions were raised then why Arevalos hadn't been confronted earlier about the string of complaints, but it wasn't until last week that information surfaced that knowledge of the officer's criminal behavior went much further back.

In closed-door testimony in 2012 concerning a civil suit by the 13th victim, former officer Francisco Torres described an alleged 1997 assault in which his partner, Arevalos, forced a woman to have sex with herself using his baton. “He has his Polaroid out and when I got there the female was in the backseat again naked with her handcuffs in front of her and she had the baton.”

“This all could have been stopped years ago,” Torres testified under oath. The ex-officer said he told his superiors about the incident but court records indicated the allegations were not reported to internal affairs, according to the ABC news affiliate in San Diego.

DA investigator Susan Rodriguez told a Voice of San Diego reporter last month that top officials within the police department refused to cooperate with her office after Arevalos was finally arrested. She said they wouldn't conduct a search of Arevalos' home and by the time the DA got access a month later, they feared evidence had been removed.

“This was the first time in my now 28 years in law enforcement that I’d ever seen anything like that,” Rodriguez said in a sworn 2013 deposition. Rodriguez said she suspected that Arevalos' direct superior, Rudy Tai, blocked the search but had no evidence. Tai, who heads the department’s criminal intelligence unit and reports directly to the chief, testified that Arevalos admitted to flirting with women he stopped and was told to cut it out.

Lawyers for the 13th victim want a court-ordered independent monitor appointed to oversee the department. Former Chief William Lansdowne was not receptive to the request, and so far neither is his successor, Shelley Zimmerman. Both favor an outside audit restricted to department handling of misconduct cases.

MORE STRIPPERS ALLEGED POLICE MISCONDUCT

By Pauline Repard

SAN DIEGO — A group of strippers from a second adult entertainment club have filed a claim against San Diego police, alleging their privacy rights were violated in the way vice officers conducted an inspection.

The dancers from Exposé in Kearny Mesa filed the claim on Friday, seeking more than $10,000 in damages for emotional distress and lost income.

The claim, filed by attorney Dan Gilleon, says that on March 6, a half-dozen officers made demeaning comments as they photographed tattoos on the nearly-nude women, and told them to smile and pose in certain ways.

Vice officers went to two other clubs that evening, including Cheetahs, also in Kearny Mesa. Gilleon filed a claim against police on behalf of two dozen strippers from Cheetahs last week, alleging the same type of conduct.

Police spokesman Lt. Kevin Mayer has defended the officers’ actions, saying the license checks were routine and legal. He said dancers agree to random inspections before they can obtain a city adult entertainment license.

Mayer said vice officers keep photos of the dancers’ tattoos on file because the women often change their appearance.

Gilleon said in both claims that the women were against their will for an hour without probable cause that any crime had been committed.

If the city rejects the claims, the women can then file lawsuits seeking monetary damages.

Other San Diego police officers have been accused of sexual misconduct and one faces criminal charges for allegedly frisking several women in an inappropriate, sexual manner. The federal Department of Justice is to conduct an audit of the department's training and supervision policies.

Kansas City police officer convicted of corruption

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A suspended Kansas City police officer has been convicted of one count corruption but found not guilty on four other charges after he was accused of having sex with two women in exchange for not arresting them.

The jury convicted Jeffrey Holmes on Friday of one corruption charge but found him not guilty of four other charges involving corruption and sex-related accusations. The jury also recommended that Holmes be sentenced to 15 days in the county jail and pay an undetermined fine. The Kansas City Star reports that two women accused Holmes of coming to their hotel rooms in 2012, indicating he was going to arrest them for prostitution, but having sex with each of them instead. Holmes has been on unpaid suspension from the department.

Former officer accused of sexual assault

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -

A former Mesa police officer was arrested and accused of sexually assaulting two women inside an art gallery he owns in Old Town Scottsdale.

42-year-old Walter Knox says he was floored when police arrested him for sexual assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Knox has not been charged and he says the alleged victims' claims are bogus and it's all a scam.

The owner of Knox Artifacts near Goldwater and Main Street in Scottsdale was arrested at his high end gallery Thursday.

The alleged victims say a handgun was involved.

"Any incident like that is totally out of whack," said Antonio Mona of Casa de Artistas of Scottsdale.

Fellow gallery owners were taken aback by the allegations.

Knox, who wouldn't talk with us on camera, told us off-camera that he was assaulted in a strip club earlier that night, where he says police identification and prior duty weapon were stolen.

He says a man and the two alleged victims, who claimed to have witnessed that attack, came back to his gallery where he says they tried to get him to invest in a project.

In a police report, Knox admitted to having consensual contact with the women.  He showed us photos of the two alleged victims.  Topless, in the gallery and smiling as they showed off ancient artifacts.

Police say they found meth and suspected cocaine in the back of the gallery, something Knox says the alleged victims left there.  He also claims they stole thousands of dollars from him.

According to the police report, investigators staked out the business for about six hours before arresting Knox as the store closed following an art walk Thursday.

The arrest comes as a shock to others in the high-end art community.

"It's a close knit community of very wonderful people who not only promote the arts, but promote the downtown area of Scottsdale," said Mona.

The alleged victims are 28 and 29-years-old.

Mesa police say Knox took medical retirement in 2005 after serving about 10 years with the department.  They add that retired officers get a police ID saying they're retired officers.  They're also allowed to buy their duty weapon.

Judge Sends Former Cop To Prison For Rape

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a woman while on duty and trying to get another to have sex with him.

Twenty-nine-year-old Jose Rigoberto Sanchez was sentenced Friday and ordered to register as a sex offender.

Prosecutors say that in 2010, Sanchez stopped a driver in Palmdale who had warrant. Authorities say he offered not to arrest the 24-year-old woman in exchange for sex, then drove her to the desert and raped her.

Prosecutors say two nights later, he solicited a bribe in the form of sex acts from a 36-year-old woman who was suspected of drunken driving.

Sanchez pleaded no contest last month to rape under color of authority and soliciting a bribe.

Former West Sacramento Cop Sentenced to Life in Prison

Scot Murdoch

A former West Sacramento Police officer convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women while on duty has been sentenced to life in prison.

38-year-old Sergio Alvarez today was handed multiple 25-years-to-life sentences for forced oral copulation and rape; 7 years-to-life terms for kidnapping; more years still for rape and oral copulation under color of authority.

He was convicted of over 18 counts of kidnapping and sexual assault.

Alvarez kidnapped women off the street in 2011 and 2012 while working the graveyard shift, targeting prostitutes and addicts.

His wife had also fled with their three kids.

In a letter to the court, she wrote Alvarez was an out of control man who "became my abuser, not my husband or friend."

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