Florida ' Man ' Beats Girlfriend Who 'Cheated' in His Dreams

[doxydad]

A North Miami-Dade man was jailed on a laundry list of charges after reportedly terrorizing a woman all day on Summerland Key, including beating her, slashing her and assaulting a dog.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/10/4282341/cops-north-miami-dade-man-terrorizes.html#storylink=cpy A Florida man allegedly imprisoned his girlfriend in his house all day Friday and beat her savagely—because he dreamed she had cheated on him, CBS Local reports. She finally called for help when her boyfriend, Carlos Gascon, 27, passed out around 7pm at her Summerland Key home. The sheriff's department says that Gascon threatened her, sliced her leg, put a knife to her throat, splashed hot coffee on her, and threw her down on a glass table so hard that it broke, the Miami Herald reports. Oddly, Gascon is also said to have thrown his own dog on the ground and held its neck down with his foot.

Throughout the ordeal, authorities say the woman couldn’t call police or get help because Gascon had thrown her car keys and cell phone in a canal behind her house.

Now in jail on $265,000 bond, Gascon is facing a host of charges including aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and animal cruelty.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/10/4282341/cops-north-miami-dade-man-terrorizes.html

[Blue_Adept]

1. Messed up beyond words

Looks like a lengthy list of charges that'll get deservedly thrown at him based on what they know so far.

[Hoppy]

2. Local dealer must have had a sale going on last week.

[el_bryanto]

3. That is an oddly placed "oddly"

I love dogs of course but isn't being crazily abusive to your girlfriend also a sign you might be crazily abusive to the household pets?

Bryant

[LeftyMom]

12. It's actually really common for abusers to harm pets and kids

as a way to further hurt/control the victim. Or they threaten to do if the victim seeks help or leaves.

[lapislzi]

13. Hmmm...maybe

I think, if I can be so bold as to put words in the writer's mouth, that the conventional wisdom about abusers is that it's very often the abused's children and pets that are targets of abuse. Because the abuser is exerting control over the abused, knowing that the abused would submit to the abuser's control/demands to spare the child or pet further harm. That the man would abuse his own pet speaks to an even deeper level of pathology, if such a thing is possible.

That being said, I am not comfortable with that level of editorializing in a "news" story. It is what it is.

[FlaGranny]

4. Wow!

Crazy for sure. He needs to be locked up for a long time. I once had a dream like that about my husband that was so "real" that I was very upset. Of course I was in touch with reality so I didn't do anything or say anything, but I was unsettled all day.

[Android3.14]

5. Sounds like insanity

Dreamed she cheated, assaulted her and attacked his own dog? That sounds like a serious break from reality.

[smiley]

6. meth?

and why is it "odd" he was abusive to his own dog? Sounds like typical behavior of a maniac.

[KurtNYC]

7. SYD

Stand Your Dream

[SwankyXomb]

8. He'll probably do more time for what he did to the dog

than what he did to his girlfriend.

[hifiguy]

9. I presecribe 30-40 years in a place

with soft rooms, high walls, and powerful anti-psychotic medications administered on a regular basis.

[joeybee12]

10. I hope she stays away, it concerns me because I can't imagine

that this was the only time she was at the receiving end of his anger.

And I hope to God they took that dog away.

[progressoid]

11. "Florida Man..."

Any time a headline starts out that way, you know it's going to be a doozy.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. Very true. nt

[AgingAmerican]

14. Revolting

Truly revolting. This guy needs a few decades long time out to mull his actions.