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Seattle Man Forced Pregnant Girlfriend To Sign “Abuse Contract”

A man is in King County jail held on $100,000 bail after Seattle Police say he assaulted his pregnant teen girlfriend twice. According to the Seattle Times, 31-year-old Graydon Smith was arrested on domestic abuse charges against his 19-year-old pregnant girlfriend.

In an odd twist to this sad domestic violence news story, it was revealed that Smith had his girlfriend sign an “abuse contract” that permitted him to physically strike his girlfriend whenever he pleased as long as he did not hit her in her pregnant belly.

In April, Seattle Police received a call from the abuse victim from their Haller Lake home, in which the young women told authorities that her boyfriend had threatened to kill her and that he had beat her in the past. Weeks later, Smith’s stepfather called Washington Police to the home a second time, this time after the stepfather reported that Smith was choking his girlfriend. When police arrived, they found that the girl had indeed been choked and was also bleeding from her head as the results of the same domestic abuse incident. In addition she had bruising on the back of her head. During that day of domestic violence, the stepfather was also punched by his stepson.

Smith is denying that he hit or hurt his pregnant girlfriend, though he did admit to reporters that he made his girlfriend sign a document permitting violence against her.

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