Crime & Safety
Middletown Mom Attacks Man with Metal Chair After Getting Unwanted Parenting Advice: PD
The altercation occurred after the woman woke up their baby around midnight for cuddle time and the man said it wasn't a good idea: Police.
MIDDLETOWN, CT — A Middletown mother faces charges after police say she struck a man with a metal folding chair during an argument over the parenting of their 3-month-old child.
Krystal Hull, 25, of Russell Court, was arrested after police responded to the home at about 2 a.m. on Oct. 18.
Hull had arrived home at about 11:30 p.m. and, after a short while, went upstairs to wake up the 3-month-old child to “cuddle,” according to the police report. Hull, the man and the baby then all laid in the bed together.
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The man then told Hull that waking up the baby was a bad idea and he told police that after he said that her “switch flipped” and a verbal altercation ensued, according to the police report.
The man told police that she tried to kick him out of their bed and after he refused, she started to slap him in the face and chest and started to stomp on his legs, according to the report. The man then got off the bed.
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A short time later, the man tried to calm Hull down but she then grabbed a folded metal chair and swung it at him and struck him in the upper left arm, according to the report. He then called the police.
Hull told police that she was angry with the man for “never helping” with their child and wanted him to leave the house for good. She also said that he was “annoying” her for telling her how to be a mother and she couldn’t take it anymore.
The man declined medical evaluation for his injury and the baby was not harmed during the altercation, but police notified the state Department of Children and Families about the incident, according to the police report.
Hull was arrested on charges of risk of injury to a child, third-degree assault and disorderly conduct. She was released on a promise to appear and is due in court on Nov. 4, according to state judicial records.
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