Can a domestic violence misdemeanor charge ruin a career?
I have a friend whose husband is likely going plead guilty to a domestic violence charge as a misdemeanor and obstructing official business (another misdemeanor).
Her husband holds a prominent job with a large organization.
Will the charge effect his work or future work opportunities.
He is definitely guilty. They have loads of pictures from the domestic violence program, the police etc. He hasn’t ever done this before, but he did beat her really bad.
She just wondered because they have kids together and she is a stay-at-home mom.
This is in Ohio.
I would really appreciate links to forward to her with information. Thanks.
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The position is a vice presidency of a nonprofit group..working only as a VP heading departments like computers, facilities, accounting, etc.. The guy is super great at his job. He has a binge-drinking problem and anger management issues at home. At work everybody LOVES him because he is so quiet and greatat getting his job more than done!
2 days ago
She is giving a victim impact statement at the pre-trial. She filed a CPO and had an attorney. There isn't going ro be a trial because his lawyer said he is pleading guilty to the DV misdemeanor.
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Update: My friend, through her church, therapy and her own beliefs would like her family to be healed and remain together. Her husband is ignoring her and is supposed to be filing for a divorce and won't talk to her. She extended anolive branch and he basicallyemotionally beat her with it. His family supports him, she has no family, just us friends.
She is a mess emotionally..devastated!
IShe is in counseling and so are the kids and then someone called social services and they came to see her.
They went from being a niddle class family to poverty-stricken. It is terrible.
His pre-trial is Monday and she is trying to write her victim impact statement. She knows he will serve her with divorce papers right after that.
He's being nasty now and she has the opportunity to get the prosecutor to put him in jail, and yet she doesn;t want to hurt him.
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I think she was right to cooperate with prosecutors, get a CPO, deny visitiation now, insist on bills being paid, etc. But he is mad at her and blames it all on her.
She is a stay at home mom with kids and they went from middle class to having nothing because he is ignoring the CPO and there is no money for her to get gifts for the kids or anything. Friends are bringing them food and the church brought some gifts. Her boys are 4 and 12..I think, maybe 5 and 11. I don;t remember.
2006-12-16 12:07:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
No 1 his criminal history can be checked quite easily online. If the organization finds out they can check and he could be summarilly fired. (most States have an employment at will law stating either you or the employer can end work at any time for any reason!) So yes he could screw up his career definitely. I think though the more important question here is to get this guy help and even more importantly get help for the victim of his abuse!
2006-12-16 12:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by rb_antiques 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Events like this seldom stop after 1 beating.
And having been with cops when they respond to this type of abuse, the cops were always telling me to watch out for the woman - who would attempt to protect "her man" by fighting the cops who were trying to get the husband/boyfriend to stop beating her.
Huh?
Many time the wife/girlfriend will drop the charges. That's why some jurisdictions have a policy of locking up the offenders and starting the legal proceding - rehardless of whether the (most cases) wife/girlfriend doesn't want to.
2006-12-17 15:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by John Hightower 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It shouldn't affect his work as long as he doesn't tell anyone at work about it. Unless he applies for a job that does a security check, or is charged with a felony, he shouldn't have any issues. I'm so sorry about your friend. I was married for years to an abusive man, and finally got the courage to leave him last year. She may want to work things out with him, but trust me, divorce is for the best. Men like that rarely change. They just keep on making excuses, and the beatings only get worse.
2016-05-23 00:10:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Divorce the bastich and get child support and alimony don't look back anyone like he is deserves whatever he gets and in this case a lot more than he will any guy who does things like this should be kneecapped they are subhuman and should not have rights tell her to find herself a good man as that one is a definite loser!!!let her know that god won't heal his filth he has to worry about her children and herself someone will come along who will appreciate what she has to offer and she will find out that she doesn't miss being married to pond-slime !
2006-12-16 12:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, his career is probably toast. People in business and the professional world tend to frown on wife beaters. He'll have a record that will follow him for life and every interview and job application, he'll have to bring it up. It says on his criminal record for 7 years, but really for life, because anyone doing a background check will be able to find it with ease. Maybe he can be a greeter at Walmart. Mmmmmm, no, they won't want to hire someone deemed violent. I'd say he's ruined.
2006-12-16 12:17:34 · answer #5 · answered by realist1100 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my friend did this with her ex. she always wanted to try and keep the relationship together because she thought her kids needed him there. it took her 10 years of hurt , abuse , isolation , and alienation from her friends and family and the most i could do before she finally ended the relationship for the last time. she is doing SO much better now. she doesnt understand the person she used to be and she regrets that she wasted so much of her time on that piece of s#*t. she needs to leave him despite his threats. no more chances for him. if this was her daughter's life, what advice would she be giving?
2006-12-16 12:30:20 · answer #6 · answered by earthgirl766 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Next time he might kill her.
Tell you friend she needs her head examined. Getting a job and staying alive for her children is a lot more important than having him possibly murder the entire family: it happened today and it happens almost every day.
Don't day it cannot happen because it does
You friend needs to put the guy in jail.
2006-12-16 12:17:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abusers will always blame the victim. She was right to do what she did and needs support to stick to it! It doesn't matter if this was the one and only time he has done this (and I doubt it was, to be honest) an abuser is always an abuser. Period.
2006-12-16 12:17:45 · answer #8 · answered by Elaine S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
short and simple a misdemeanor will not hurt his career unless he wants to hold a public office and even then it can only be used against his reputation.
2006-12-16 12:26:41 · answer #9 · answered by Enigma 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it should not affect his job. If he gets convicted, he will never be able to carry a gun.
2006-12-16 12:52:38 · answer #10 · answered by gablueliner 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋