Domestic violence perpetrator speaks about abuse, treatment

Editors note: This is the final story in the Mirrors In Her Shoes three-part series about domestic violence.

Samantha Cavin woke up in jail last year and couldnt remember how she got there.

Her friend later told her exactly what happened.

Cavin, then 22, was drunk and got into an altercation with her boyfriend at their home.

I got mad and I took my head and head-butted him, the Kent resident recalled. My friend told me I went into the room and he was screaming for someone to help him and I took my cell phone that he had broken and hit him several times in the head with it. At the time, he was very scared.

Cavin said her boyfriend, who has cerebral palsy and is disabled, was bleeding from his head so she took him into the bathroom and began cleaning him up.

I apologized over and over again, I didnt mean to hurt you, she recalled. Then I was handcuffed and went to jail.

Cavin was charged with domestic violence assault and a judge ordered her to complete 30 days of domestic violence treatment, attend a panel and do an alcohol assessment.

She didnt comply. So when she got into another altercation with her boyfriend on July 23, she was booked into jail for 16 days on her warrant for being non-compliant.

They said I needed to do everything I was supposed to do a year ago or Id go to jail for 365 days, she said.

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Domestic violence perpetrator speaks about abuse, treatment