Husband's day-long drinking binge ends with battered wife, police say (The Morning Call)

Husband's day-long drinking binge ends with battered wife, police say
Manuel Gamiz Jr.
August 26, 2009

A woman was taken to the hospital after she was severely assaulted by her husband Sunday in their Allentown home, according to court records.

Allentown police were called to 2005 Tilghman St. at 4:21 p.m. Sunday, where Alfonso P. Narvaes-Jimenez, 34, answered the door with blood on his hands and shirt, according to an arrest affidavit. Narvaes-Jimenez led police to his wife, Maria A. Garcia-Contreras, who was in the back of the basement, sitting on the floor and crying in the dark.

When police turned on the lights, she was holding her face. Her left eye was swollen shut, she was bleeding from her nose and had a tooth knocked out, according to court records.

Garcia-Contreras told police that her husband had been drinking all day with a friend and passed out in the kitchen and woke up when their baby started crying. Narvaes-Jimenez went into her room, where he grabbed the baby from her and they started to argue, police said. She took the baby back from him and then he started punching her in the face repeatedly, police said.

She tried defending herself with a broom, but he continued punching her.

Paramedics were called and she was treated and released from Lehigh Valley Hospital-Allentown.

He was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment and arraigned before District Judge Patricia Engler who sent him to Lehigh County Prison under $25,000 bail. Immigration officials were also notified of the arrest.