Police in Rock Hill, N.C., have arrested a man for for beating his wife in a hospital while she was giving birth to a child. According to witnessess, 20-year-old Marquevious Jabar Bell slapped the woman in the face and punched her several times. The incident happened at the Women’s Center at Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill.
Bell is up for “criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature” according to the police report. The woman, while in labor and under medication, got into an argument with Bell. Eventually, nurses arrived while he was still there. Local media sources also indicated that the woman gave the nurses a note that read, “please don’t leave the room but make him leave, he stressn [sic] me and I’m scared.”
Nurses eventually managed to get security to come and Bell was escorted from the building. The woman informed members of the Clover Police Department that she had been trying to leave Bell, for the past 18 months, stating that he’d hit her and even threatened her with a gun in the past. –torrance stephens, ph.d.