November 26, 200817 yr ...being immobilized on a stretcher and being hit in the sack.......ouch (AURORA) An Aurora woman incensed by finding another woman's number on her husband's cell phone has been charged with beating her husband while he lay immobilized on a stretcher at a hospital, Kane County prosecutors said. Esmerelda Rodriguez, 26, of the 200 block of Parker Circle in Aurora, faces charges of felony aggravated battery with a weapon and misdemeanor domestic battery in the incident, which occurred at 5:10 p.m. Sunday at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora. According to prosecutors, Rodriguez's husband, a 22-year-old Aurora man, was at the hospital being treated for a spinal injury. He was on a stretcher, with his head in a collar, when his wife discovered another woman's phone number in his cell phone, prosecutors said. The man was unable to sit up, and the woman punched him several times on the groin, prosecutors said. While he was still unable to defend himself, she hit him in the face with a belt and took his phone, prosecutors said.
November 26, 200817 yr Had this been the other way around, the story of a crazed wife beating male would be a top story everywhere.
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