A woman called police and claimed she had been assaulted by the father of her child and that he had attempted to strangle her.
The Bloomington Police Department received the call at approximately 10:30 a.m. Monday about a domestic battery at 1514 W. 12th St., BPD Capt. Steve Kellams said.
The father, Satish Brown, was asked reluctantly by the mother to watch the child for a period of time Monday. She told police she did not want him to watch her child as he was transient.
She found someone to watch her child at the last minute and asked Brown to leave.
He refused and became upset. She reported he threatened to kill her. He then approached her, wrapped his hands around her throat and began to strangle her.
She reported that she tried to use her cell phone, and Brown removed his hands from her throat in order to take her phone away. She argued with him, and Brown returned her phone.
When police arrived, the woman had bruises on her neck from the strangulation.
Brown was charged with strangulation, a felony.
Brown has been arrested several times over the past eight years, including charges of intimidation, burglary and battery with bodily injury to a pregnant woman.
Dominick Jean
