Opinion ID: 4519639
Heading Depth: 3
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Heading: Bathtub incident

Text: {¶ 7} Sometime near the end of January or the beginning of February 2014, Brandi and Boaston were in the bathroom together at their Amanda Circle residence. According to testimony elicited from several witnesses, Brandi told them that Boaston tried to drown her in the bathtub while she was taking a bath. Brandi suffered two black eyes and an injury to her nose. A neighbor who lived in the bordering condominium testified that one day during this time frame, she heard a woman’s scream and the sound of running water coming from the Boaston residence through an adjoining wall. {¶ 8} Boaston admitted that Brandi sustained a black eye and bruises one day when they had just finished taking a bath together. He claimed that after he stepped out of the tub, Brandi asked whether he intended to harm her. In response to this question, he forcefully splashed water two to three times at Brandi who was 3 SUPREME COURT OF OHIO lying back in the bathtub. Boaston denied striking Brandi or attempting to drown her, and instead claimed that Brandi had “spazzed out” and was somehow injured while overreacting to having water splashed in her face.