Rich kid sent to jail for beating girlfriend
Hot-blooded blueblood jailed for assault:
A violent spoiled rich kid from Massachusetts was sentenced to one year in jail for beating his girlfriend. 24-year-old Christopher Gardner Beaman punched his girlfriend in the stomach so hard that it lacerated her liver, put her into the hospital, and confined her to a wheelchair for a short period.
It seems that Beaman has a history of violence. He allegedly pushed his own mother down a flight of stairs. Mom supports her son by the way. Way to be an enabler mom. He broke a girl’s arm in the eighth grade. He assaulted a therapist. He also has an arrest record as long as my arm and I have pretty long arms.
When his then girlfriend asked him to take her to the hospital he just dropped her off at her place and gave her two Tylenol.
His lawyers tried to claim that he has “intermittent explosive disorder” or as I like to call it made up woman beater disease. Apparently he thought the charges against him were no big deal because in February he requested that his ankle monitor be removed because it hurt when he played frisbee.
While the look on his face is priceless when he got sentenced (check the article for said picture) the fact that he only got one year disgusts me.
How is battering women ever going to be discouraged when the abusers get light sentences like this?
Tags: assault, Christopher Gardner Beaman, Domestic ViolencePOSTED IN: Domestic Violence
14 opinions for Rich kid sent to jail for beating girlfriend
Carla McCoy
May 5, 2008 at 11:27 am
Sounds to me like the parental guidance has been missing for quite some time in this case, as well as therapy and counseling for the boy.
Off topic forum
May 5, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I got the pics of the kid in court in my link (click name)
The look on this kids face is awesome!
Carla McCoy
May 5, 2008 at 12:09 pm
He doesn’t look like the type that would do something like this however he does certainly look very lost. The expression on his face is priceless I would imagine to some.
Soobs
May 5, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Per his attorney, his “marijuana dependence” is in REMISSION? Yeah, since his ass has been in jail.
stewie
May 6, 2008 at 6:33 am
Can we get Paris Hilton next?
I cannot believe that frisbee was his excuse.
& if there was such a pattern since the EIGHT GRADE, why has he not gotten help? Or @ least helped that works and will keep him out of jail … ? Too late now.
D.P.
May 6, 2008 at 12:28 pm
He is at this point because no one in his life has ever held him accountable for his behaviour. Even the ex-girlfriend with the lacerated liver didn’t want to tell LE what really happened to her. She didn’t tell anyone until five days of sitting in a hospital bed went by. Mom gets pushed down a flight of stairs, yet still is in denial that her son is a narcissistic, ego-centric, hotheaded woman beater? Good job, mom.
Sickia
May 6, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Holy crap. “American Psycho” anyone?
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LD
May 20, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Not that I’m disagreeing with any of you, but I think it’s time to stop calling this guy a kid. When he broke that girls arm in 8th grade her was a kid, when he pushed his mom down the stairs he was a kid, when he beat up his little brother so badly his brother had a restraining order put out on him, he was a kid. Now he’s in his twenties, he’s a man (or at least he’s supposed to be one) and–putting frisbee over the conditions of his court oders aside–he’s not a kid anymore; he’s graduated up to nearly killing people.
P.S. This just in: He’s already up for parole in July. Sleep well, women of Somerville.
Lisa
May 31, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Send him to my house. The first time he hits me there is bound to be something nearby (a glass, a vase, a flower pot, ect.) that I can knock some sense into him with.
Lisa
May 31, 2008 at 5:03 pm
P.S. For all those parents out there that do not belive in disipline, this is how your children will turn out without it.
Carla McCoy
May 31, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Lisa,
While I do agree with your statement to a certain degree there always comes a time in a child’s life when they have to start making their own choices and decisions. I do not believe that children who are not disiplined will always react in this manner.
LD - I completely agree with you!!
Interested
May 31, 2008 at 9:56 pm
So I found this article that says 1/3 of people who commit domestic violence have Intermittent Explosive disorder. Imagine giving every abuser an excuse to avoid punishment. If you want to drug and treat these folks, do it in prison. http://www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org/lib/File/Neuroscience%20and%20batterer%20programs-FINAL.pdf
Sentencing
Jul 2, 2008 at 10:31 am
I agree, his sentence was way too short. In Massachusetts an offender can get 12 days off his sentence a month. At this rate, Beaman will be on the streets again in October. These are very dangerous laws.
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