Marion County, IN: One Size Fits All? $500 Bail & Ankle Monitor for Domestic Abuse
Six weeks after completing a 1-year probation sentence for a gun charge, Roger Bowman, Jr., 29, assaulted and dragged his girlfriend down the hallway by the hair during a domestic violence incident that landed him in jail again.
After his initial hearing, a judge set a low $500 bond and ordered home detention…adding to the thousands now being state monitored.
“The week we went to my grandmother’s house we got into a fight. It got a little physical. I went through some drywall. Got back into my nose and blackened both of my eyes. It just excessively gotten worse. I started getting hit with tools like extensions for socket wrenches. Actually last week he hit me with a Remington hammer shot which is a concrete nail gun.”
Allie Whitaker – via cbs4Indy
Marion County Pretrial Release Program
- ZERO Accountability
- ZERO Deterrent
- ZERO Supervision
- ZERO Concern for Victims of Crime
- ZERO Bail – just a “pinky promise” to return
East side woman recounts abusive relationship on eve of boyfriend’s hearing
(excerpt from cbs4indy.com)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Allie Whitaker’s knees trembled as we talked inside a safe house far away from the east side home where she said her boyfriend beat and choked her last week before crashing his truck into the back of a Family Dollar store Sunday morning.
“He’s a silver-tongued devil,” she said. “I looked into the face of the Devil and he doesn’t have horns. He’s got blond hair and blue eyes. I’ve been saying that since I got away from him.”
Roger Bowman, Jr., 29, is locked up inside the Marion County Jail awaiting an initial hearing Tuesday morning on a charge of crashing his vehicle while drunk in the 2100 block of West Morris Street, and also for the alleged attack on Whitaker.
“So we started to fight and he hit me a few times and I bolted for the backdoor,” said Whitaker as she recalled the early afternoon battle of January 14th. “He dragged me down the hallway by my hair back into the bedroom and was like, ‘Where do you think you’re going?’ and he called me the “B” word. ‘You’re just a stupid “B” word.’ And that’s when he started to choke me up against the wall in between the bed and the wall. At some point we got up and he basically put me in a full nelson and lifted me off my feet.”
Whitaker claimed that wasn’t the first time Bowman had put hands on her.