Florida Woman Assaulted, Head Slammed On Counter While She Held 6-Month-Old Baby, Accused Arrested

A man in Milton, Florida, was arrested Sunday (May 3) for slamming a woman’s head on a counter while she held an infant baby.

The Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a home after receiving a report of physical disturbance. Investigation revealed that the unidentified woman and the accused, identified as 27-year-old John Currey, were having an argument when the man starting assaulting her upon noticing that she wasn’t wearing a ring that he had gifted her. He first grabbed and squeezed her fingers.

When the woman threatened to call the cops, he grabbed her neck and pushed her before taking away her keys and phone. A while later, he returned her phone. He then tried to take her phone back. When she refused to give it to him, the accused grabbed the woman by her neck and slammed her head on a counter while she was holding a six-month-old infant.

The accused was taken into custody and charged with battery, child cruelty and obstruction of justice. Investigation into the incident was ongoing and the relationship between the woman and the accused was not known.

The incident comes days after a Maryland man was charged with attempted murder for nearly beating his pregnant girlfriend to death. Police arrived at a home and found a 19-year-old woman holding her two-year-old daughter. The woman, with visible injuries, was rushed to a nearby hospital. She told police her boyfriend, 25-year-old Kevin Curtis, had beaten her. The woman told the investigators that the two had an argument, which soon escalated. The accused slapped and punched his girlfriend across the face and stomach.

"The victim fell to the ground and Curtis pulled her up, began spitting on her face and hair as a sign of disrespect... Curtis began pulling her hair, dragging her around the room," police wrote in court records. The accused was taken into custody and charged with attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault.