WESTFIELD – A city woman has been arrested and her off-again-on-again boyfriend may have learned the value of circumspection after an injudicious comment apparently caused her to beat and bite him.
City police report that a visibly upset man whose shirt was torn came to the station shortly after midnight Thursday to report that he had been beaten for the past 45 minutes by his girlfriend.
Officer James Renaudette returned to the station to speak with the complainant and Officer Jason Peron was dispatched to check on the man’s girlfriend.
Renaudette reports that the victim said that earlier in the evening he had become involved in an argument with his on-and-off girlfriend, Jasmine Jade Kaempfer, 23, of 54 Riverside Drive, about an issue involving her son and he had left their Riverside Drive home to have a couple of beers at a downtown bar.
The man told Renaudette that, when he returned, he found Kaempfer was drinking wine with a female friend.
He said that, a short time later, he was in bed with her when the other woman, who was still in the room talking, asked him when he was going to marry her friend.
The victim told Renaudette that he does not remember his exact words but reported that he said something to the effect of “Are you kidding me?”
This caused his girlfriend to become upset, he said, and she put him in a headlock and bit his head.
He said that when he was able to free himself he demanded repeatedly that the visiting woman leave and she did so only after trying to persuade Kaempfer to leave with her.
The man told Renaudette that, after her visitor left, Kaempfer continued to assault him and grabbed his throat.
He said the woman choked him, pushed him against a wall and was somehow was able to take him to the ground where she kneed him under an eye and twice head butted his forehead.
Renaudette reports the man showed him “a bite mark on his head, scratches on his neck and back and bumps on his forehead.”
The victim told Renaudette that he was able to break free, although the woman tore his shirt in the process, but when he got into his car he was unable to get away before the woman jumped in too.
He said that the woman threatened to jump from the moving vehicle unless he returned to their home and he acquiesced.
When he got home, however, he got out of the car but, when the woman also exited, he jumped back in the car and sped to the police station.
Peron reports that Kaempfer, who is four feet eleven inches tall and described by Peron to be “skinny”, said that the incident began when her boyfriend yelled at her 14-month-old son and became physical when he pinned her to the bed while trying to strangle her.
Kaempfer admitted biting her boyfriend and said she tore his shirt when she pushed him away.
She and her son were transported to the station where she was arrested for assault and battery in a domestic relationship.
Kaempfer’s grandmother came to the station from her Huntington home to take custody of the boy.
Kaempfer was released from police custody on $300 cash bail and appeared in Westfield District Court Friday for arraignment before Judge Philip Contant.
Contant noted that Kaempfer is the defendant of a pending case for violating a protective order issued to protect the victim of the recent offense and ruled that her release would “seriously endanger” the victim.
Accordingly, although he set bail for the new offense at $500, he ordered that Kaempfer be held without right to bail on the earlier charge pending her April 9 hearing.
