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Sherman A1

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Tue Apr 5, 2022, 09:28 AM Apr 2022

Sheena Greitens says she has photos, records to document abuse by former Missouri governor

Former Missouri First Lady Sheena Greitens says in a new court filing that she has photos and other evidence to back up her claims that former Gov. Eric Greitens physically abused her and their children as his political career unraveled.

In a statement embedded in a court filing Thursday in Boone County Circuit Court as part of her ongoing child custody battle with the former governor, Sheena Greitens said she tried to resolve differences without a public fight. But she said that Eric Greitens’s attacks on her character, push for records to be sealed and demands that the case be sent to mediation show he cares more about his campaign for U.S. Senate than his sons.

Her attorney, Helen Wade, wrote in the latest filing that Sheena Greitens asked for mediation on eight previous occasions and her ex-husband refused.

The abuse claims, made in an affidavit filed March 21, stated that as he faced criminal charges and possible impeachment in 2018, Eric Greitens repeatedly threatened to commit suicide unless she showed “specific public political support” for him. In one incident of child abuse, that she swore in the affidavit occurred in November 2019, one of their sons came home from a visit his father with a swollen face, bleeding gums and loose tooth and said his father had hit him.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2022-04-05/sheena-greitens-says-she-has-photos-records-to-document-abuse-by-former-missouri-governor

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Sheena Greitens says she has photos, records to document abuse by former Missouri governor (Original Post) Sherman A1 Apr 2022 OP
Greitens is slime. Cracklin Charlie Apr 2022 #1
These are the people who make up the GOP Miguelito Loveless Apr 2022 #2
If the Dems cannot pick up this seat they are not trying. Sneederbunk Apr 2022 #3
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