A 44-year-old Waukesha man is facing allegations that he spent the past week kicking, punching, fondling and sexually assaulting a woman he lived with in a White Rock Avenue apartment.
Police were notified about a possible domestic disturbance on Friday by the Waukesha County Mental Health Department, which prompted the investigation at the apartment.
Steven L. Wagner is charged with third-degree sexual assault-domestic abuse, felony intimidation of a victim-domestic abuse, two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault-domestic abuse and two counts of battery-domestic abuse. He faces up to 23 years in prison, if convicted of the charges.
Bail was set Monday at $500.
According to the complaint filed Monday in Waukesha Circuit Court:
Officers arrived to the apartment to find a crying woman, who had substantial bruising on her arms. She told officers she was punched several times by Wagner, who stole her money.
The woman told police Wagner had physically hurt her several times since Sept. 23. The first incident started when Wagner was intoxicated and demanded money from her. The woman told police Wagner broke her cell phone in half when she tried to contact police.
On Tuesday, Wagner fondled the woman with his foot and then kicked her in the face, she told officers. A neighbor later told police he saw Wagner kick the woman in the face.
On Wednesday, Wagner again fondled her and then forcibly had sex with her, despite her trying to push him away.
With that said, my original reason for posting was to express my disbelieg at the $500 bail that has left me shaking my head!
It is hard to believe that this kind of ignorance is still present in our world today. October is Domestic Abuse Month, the month when our own Waukesha Women's Center places haunting purple female silhouettes, their dates of death emblazoned on their chests, out for all to see and remember. I challenge you to, for once, stand physically behind your words. Tell us when you will go to the Women's Center and stand there among those silhouettes, with your archaic and impossible beliefs, and allow us, the women and men who are horrified by you, to stand there, across the street, and see you. Not to hurt you in any way, not to attack you, not to do anything but to stand there and have a chance to see the actual face of true ignorance. Should you actually be brave enough to do this, should you actually stand behind your words and not just be writing them to create attention and turmoil, I encourage the media to be there. It's something the world needs to see.
Again, I hope you decide to physically stand behind your words. Come out and stand with the silhouettes. Show the world that you really believe what you say, that you truly are "disagreeing with popular opinion," and not just striving to put yourself at the center of attention. It's one thing to post words anonymously. It's another to stand up for them. Let us know when.
I didn't invite you to stay there, unless, of course, you're an abused male. But in your comments, you stated that you've never been "stupid enough to get into an abusive relationship." I am asking that you stand among the silhouettes, that symbolize the passing of women through abuse, and state your belief, out loud and into the faces of others gathered there, that you believe that a woman in an abuse situation is a "willing victim." Say it out loud, in public, and not hidden behind an anonymous name. Our beliefs and our words stand for nothing if we don't stand behind them. Let's see you stand. If you truly believe this, then I challenge you to do it.
I really don't think you understand the damage you do to your own cause by allowing those type of situations to continue-- or worse yet encouraging it. False abuse claims are in epidemic proportions right now, and refusing to acknowledge it only creates more victims." No, I don't work for the Women's Center. I stand by their cause to stop violence against women, children, AND men. Interesting, Johnny, that your ex-wife went there for help. I'm sorry, but because you hide behind anonymity, I don't believe your claims against the Women's Center. There's no strength in hiding.
You are such a small and insignificant little man aren't you? To have to come to a formum like this just to get some type of contact with the outside world is really sad and I feel sorry for you.
You took that as a threat? What a sad, insignificant little man you really are to percieve somtthing like that as a threat. I see myself as much more than you or the man that is being accused in this story. First, I don't go around beating up women which he clearly does. Second, I don't sit on a forum and argue with women because I am small and insignificant like you. Case closed.