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The woman, 22, who was allegedly forced to walk the streets of New York City naked by her boyfriend Jason Melo, 24, is breaking her silence
Melo is accused of choking and hitting her in front of their newborn daughter before threatening to throw her down stairs and slash her face
Melo then allegedly forced her to walk around the streets of New York City naked while yelling abuse, calling her a 'b***h' and a 'w***e'
He was arrested Wednesday evening and is awaiting arraignment on charges of choking, child abuse, coercion and assault
Melo posted a series of Instagram videos in which he appears to confess to the crime before begging for forgiveness
Just hours earlier however he had posted another video mocking the cruel punishment
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The woman, who is initially wearing a towel, is then stripped and made to walk around in the street while trying desperately to cover herself with the dust jacket from a motorcycle (right)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3410748/Man-24-choked-beat-girlfriend-forcing-walk-naked-streets-New-York-arrested-begging-forgiveness-social-media.html#ixzz3xveGUK1N
In a post alongside apology videos (pictured) he released, Melo writes: 'I hope my family is OK, I have a world ahead of me with goals to achieve, I won't do anything else to affect my life, I apologize to ALL the mothers'
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)may he never know the love of a woman again
840high
(17,196 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)saturnsring
(1,832 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)Xipe Totec
(44,563 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)Most of them are lovely to start with.
Skittles
(172,125 posts)to anyone with a healthy dose of self-esteem
sibelian
(7,804 posts)But that's an observation I can make only after years of experience, a lot of these guys come across all cuddly and confident and underneath there's this seething self-absorption... I can spot them now, I didn't used to be able to.
Skittles
(172,125 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)Maybe if I'd had a big sister I'd have turned out luckier...
tblue37
(68,444 posts)Skittles
(172,125 posts)I am not blaming the victims - it's complicated, but I had five brothers, served in the military, etc - if a guy ever hit me I would find the nearest baseball bat and beat the living shit out of him - this they know
KentuckyWoman
(7,408 posts)Yes some women get sucked in because childhood abuse damaged their self esteem and they can't see clearly, or do see and think it's the best they can get. But these jerks are nearly always all rainbows and unicorns until the first child comes. Anyone can get sucked in by the master manipulators.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)until after they feel their victim is too entangled to walk away.
JudyM
(29,785 posts)There are a lot of good men out there.
Mostly ignored because they don't give out the "bad boy" vibe.
Piasladic
(1,171 posts)I don't think the problem is that women are passing up the good men or the "nice guys" in favor of "bad boys," but rather sometimes nice women get fooled by bad boys pretending to be nice.
Lo
sibelian
(7,804 posts)"Nice guys" can often tell that the obnoxious guys are wankers, too...
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)... with a kind of amalgam of genuinely nice guys and probably not very nice guys who THINK they are both being depressed about not really getting anywhere with relationships and a somewhat simplistic (although entirely understandable) response from a subsection of feminism behaving as if they are all of the PUA scene, which is actually a separate phenomenon altogether.
I really think if people were a little more specific in their terminology, particularly around gender, sooooo many of these discussions would proceed sooooo much more amicably...
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)"Nice" guys. My mom has been married and divorced 5 times...my role model of what to expect from a man was pretty crappy and ingrained since birth. Fortunately, I married the best guy.
malaise
(296,823 posts)have this belief that we can change them.
Throw away the keys!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)in domestic violence cases. The state can prosecute without it, and does. Hoping NY has such a law.
uppityperson
(116,022 posts)Been there, done that, trying to explain to others how it's a gradual process. Rather like that frog sitting in the nice warm hot tub only to one day realize it's a lot on the stove with the chef standing by holding tongs and a knife.
I hope she gets the help she needs, with this being publicized.
lpbk2713
(43,281 posts)That's how it usually works out.
Threatening to kill the mother of your newborn? Beating her and making her walk naked in the cold?
He's not sorry. He's just sorry he's going to the big house.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They are only sorry they got caught and for how their reputations are going to suffer.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Which is why he recorded it and uploaded it to social media...
cwydro
(51,308 posts)He's a stupid criminal and thought he was being tough with his boys on that video.
I hope he gets prosecuted.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)simply Sad....
I don't understand how anyone could treat another person in such a manner.....
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)is suspected of being unfaithful...
Of course that in no way excuses such an unthinkable and shocking episode of abuse and humiliation...Nobody should have to go through that, and somebody needs to remind that dude that he doesn't fucking *own* the woman in his life...
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Anti-woman. Pro-codpiece.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027547949
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)That is something I will never understand.
tblue37
(68,444 posts)Orrex
(67,214 posts)That poor, poor fuckwit.
bullwinkle428
(20,662 posts)Trust me...I've heard that one more than once.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)What an asshole.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Run away fast and never look back.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)GTFOH. Dude is unfit to be a parent, she should get full custody.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Her to get away and get help for her and her daughter.
I hope he learns this is abominable and gets the help he needs along with a swift dose of criminal justice.
tblue37
(68,444 posts)father role, that little girl will also learn that this is the way women should expect to be treated by the men they are in a relationship with, and thus dooes the cycle perpetuate itself.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)snip
A self-pitying misogynist maniac was arrested for choking his girlfriend, parading her around the streets of Harlem naked and then posting video of the public humiliation online, police sources said Thursday.
Jason Melo, 24, beat and choked his 22-year-old girlfriend in their W. 142nd St. apartment in front of her 3-month-old daughter before forcing the woman into the cold for the medieval-style degradation, cop sources said.
Sources said Melo punched the victim in the face and crotch and threatened to kill her if she didnt disrobe, put on a towel and leave the apartment.
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oh yeah he's sorry. So sorry he says "Look what you pushed me to do."
Ilsa
(64,429 posts)as far away from him as possible. I hope he goes to jail. Maybe be forced to disrobe in front of others for a humiliating body check.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Oneironaut
(6,307 posts)Oh fuck off. Go run in traffic you loser.
Javaman
(65,860 posts)fuck him.
let him parade naked in jail, see how he likes it.
fucker.
steve2470
(37,481 posts)I wish the woman all the best!!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)..this mother-fucker's face.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Mister Ed
(6,948 posts)Warpy
(114,646 posts)Some men should be restricted to dating Real Dolls. He's a prime example.