MONROE - A man testified in Green County Circuit Court Tuesday, Jan. 31, that his wife stabbed him in December at their Monroe home while their young daughter slept upstairs, then ignored his frantic calls for help and took him to the emergency room the next day only after he made up an alibi for the stab wound.
Judge Thomas Vale heard the victim's testimony during the preliminary hearing for Shannon L. Golackson, 27. She faces felony charges of aggravated battery, intimidation of a victim and false imprisonment.
Golackson's husband was the only witness brought to the stand for testimony. Prosecuting attorney Jeffrey Kohl questioned him closely for more than an hour for details of the alleged incident on Sunday, Dec. 4.
That Sunday, the victim said, he arrived home around 9:30 p.m. after watching the Giants vs. Packers football game at the home of a friend his wife considered a bad influence. He admitted to lying to her about his whereabouts. His wife had consumed beer and half of a box of wine that day, he said, and was sleeping when he got in: "She awoke upset with me, who I'd been with."
During a confrontation about where he'd spent the afternoon, he testified, she grabbed a steak knife out of a knife set on the kitchen counter and threw it at him, then took a second steak knife and stabbed it in his upper left chest. Next, he said, she rinsed blood off the stabbing knife in the sink and went outside to smoke a cigarette.
The victim said he bent down to the floor in a fetal position to cinch the "massive amount of blood" gushing from the wound.
When she came back in the house, "there was discussion of me going to the hospital," he said. But, he added, "I didn't feel it was necessary."
After she went to bed, allegedly leaving him curled up on the living room floor, he said he realized how serious his injury was and called for her to help, then drifted in and out of consciousness.
The next morning, he was awakened by the sound of their toddler daughter. While his wife watched cartoons with the little girl, he said he called to his wife "frantically" for help.
"She said that she would get in trouble if we were to go to the hospital, and that was more or less her reasoning for not wanting to take me," he said. But at her suggestion, he "came up with a story" that the stabbing was a self-inflicted accident, and they went to the hospital at about 9 a.m. Monday morning.
He spent the next four days in the hospital, heavily medicated and with a tube jammed in his chest, he testified.
"There was approximately a liter of blood in my lungs that they had to drain," he said.
He waited to press charges. "I didn't want to see the mother of my child get in trouble, no matter how severe," he explained in court. But he ultimately pursued charges on Dec. 17, after he said it became clear that therapy "to solve the underlying issues" was not an option.
Golackson filed for a divorce from him on Dec. 16.
Vale found probable cause for the charges against Golackson and scheduled her arraignment for 1:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13.
Kohl said he plans before then to review her case for possible modifications and additional charges.
Judge Thomas Vale heard the victim's testimony during the preliminary hearing for Shannon L. Golackson, 27. She faces felony charges of aggravated battery, intimidation of a victim and false imprisonment.
Golackson's husband was the only witness brought to the stand for testimony. Prosecuting attorney Jeffrey Kohl questioned him closely for more than an hour for details of the alleged incident on Sunday, Dec. 4.
That Sunday, the victim said, he arrived home around 9:30 p.m. after watching the Giants vs. Packers football game at the home of a friend his wife considered a bad influence. He admitted to lying to her about his whereabouts. His wife had consumed beer and half of a box of wine that day, he said, and was sleeping when he got in: "She awoke upset with me, who I'd been with."
During a confrontation about where he'd spent the afternoon, he testified, she grabbed a steak knife out of a knife set on the kitchen counter and threw it at him, then took a second steak knife and stabbed it in his upper left chest. Next, he said, she rinsed blood off the stabbing knife in the sink and went outside to smoke a cigarette.
The victim said he bent down to the floor in a fetal position to cinch the "massive amount of blood" gushing from the wound.
When she came back in the house, "there was discussion of me going to the hospital," he said. But, he added, "I didn't feel it was necessary."
After she went to bed, allegedly leaving him curled up on the living room floor, he said he realized how serious his injury was and called for her to help, then drifted in and out of consciousness.
The next morning, he was awakened by the sound of their toddler daughter. While his wife watched cartoons with the little girl, he said he called to his wife "frantically" for help.
"She said that she would get in trouble if we were to go to the hospital, and that was more or less her reasoning for not wanting to take me," he said. But at her suggestion, he "came up with a story" that the stabbing was a self-inflicted accident, and they went to the hospital at about 9 a.m. Monday morning.
He spent the next four days in the hospital, heavily medicated and with a tube jammed in his chest, he testified.
"There was approximately a liter of blood in my lungs that they had to drain," he said.
He waited to press charges. "I didn't want to see the mother of my child get in trouble, no matter how severe," he explained in court. But he ultimately pursued charges on Dec. 17, after he said it became clear that therapy "to solve the underlying issues" was not an option.
Golackson filed for a divorce from him on Dec. 16.
Vale found probable cause for the charges against Golackson and scheduled her arraignment for 1:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13.
Kohl said he plans before then to review her case for possible modifications and additional charges.