Celebrity Justice
Benoit's History of Domestic Violence Exposed

Before her grisly death, Chris Benoit's wife once told a judge that she was, "intimidated by threats of violence" from her 220 lb. husband.

In divorce papers filed in 2003, Nancy Benoit included a petition for protection from domestic abuse against Chris. In the papers, Nancy claimed that Benoit, "lost his temper and threatened to strike the petitioner and cause extensive damage to the home and personal belongings of the parties, including furniture." Nancy added that she was, "in reasonable fear for petitioner's own safety and that of the minor child."

Three months later, Nancy filed to have the divorce papers and the restraining order dismissed. A short time later, a judge granted her wish.

As TMZ first reported, law enforcement sources tell TMZ they believe Benoit strangled his wife on Saturday, smothered his son on Sunday and then hanged himself on Monday.




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316. As disturbing as this story is, it should be the wake up call that the WWF and their fans need.
Stop supporting this line of "sport/entertainment" until the WWF requires weekly drug testing for their wrestlers while making the findings public and coming down hard on the offenders.
All one has to do is look at them to know that they are NOT built like that by simply eating lots of protein, weight lifting and working out! Everyone who follows this line of entertainment/sport KNOWS full well that steroids are involved yet ONLY when something like this happens do people feel badly about it.
Seems hypocritical to me.....
Steroids are dangerous and in professional sports they are illegal. FOR A REASON.
Kids all across America watch these guys and want to be like them. Like it or not, they are viewed as hero's by the kids. All the while, taking steroids.
And the fans say and do nothing and show lack of concern.....as long as the entertainment continues. That is wrong.

Posted at 3:23PM on Jul 24th 2007 by K.

317. No one believes that Jim could be violent. He's a white male philosophy professor. No one could believe that I would be the kind of woman who would participate in the abuse. I'm bright and outspoken. There were several episodes of slamming my head into a wall. There were a number of times when I stayed in restraints until I would give into what ever he wanted. There were painful sex acts. I learned to hide car keys. Sometimes I could escape, and when I did I would go have a lot of car keys made. I'd hide some near my office, some on a path we walked, some in boxes of tampons. When I got home, I would always have a few on my body as if I were trying to hide them. He would take those. I simply accepted that Jim would demand a job in every department where I had a job. It was necessary if I wanted that job. I can no longer count the jobs I had to turn down because Jim wasn't offered a job to teach with me. He said if I left him, he'd take my son away from me. He did. For a while, he convinced people that I had a bi-polar disorder. Then, he decided it was a borderline personality disorder. Most recently, it's an executive brain dysfunction. Finally, he went to far. He hit me with a truck in front of an eyewitness who called 911. I went to the hospital. He went to jail. He was charged with domestic assault, but he plead down to disorderly conduct. In Illinois, you can run over your wife for $217 and 6 months of probation. Here's the proof:

http://www.judici.com/courts/cases/case_dispositions.jsp?court=IL027015J&ocl=IL027015J,2000CM172,IL027015JL2000CM172D1

Now the punchline? You can move to Idaho and teach PHIL 103 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS. Here's that proof too:

http://classes.isu.edu/fall/PHIL.shtml.

Posted at 12:29AM on Sep 14th 2007 by Been there

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