Kandi & Daughter In Danger? Baby Daddy Charged With Family Violence, Cruelty To Child
Oct. 11 2016, Published 10:16 a.m. ET
Kandi Burruss’ baby daddy has been accused of not paying child support for their daughter Riley – but his bad dad behavior is the least of The Real Housewives of Atlanta star's worries! RadarOnline.com has obtained exclusive documents revealing he was once charged with family violence battery and cruelty to children.
According to the indictment obtained from Gwinnett County Superior Court, Russell Spencer was charged with two counts of family violence battery on March 6, 2005 when he allegedly “unlawfully and intentionally caused visible bodily harm” to his wife at the time. Spencer was accused of bruising the victim after striking her.
He was charged with four counts of cruelty to children when their four kids under the age of 18 witnessed the alleged battery.
“Spencer did then and there unlawfully commit family violence battery, being the primary aggressor and having knowledge that a child under the age of 18 was present and saw the act,” the papers read.
During a November 2007 court hearing, Assistant District Attorney Richard A. Vandever revealed the victim wrote him a letter stating that Spencer never hit her.
"'I was jealous about another girl at a shoot,'" Vandever read to the court. "She got into a scuffle with the individual, not this defendant. And she got hit in the face when that happened. Although she did call the police the night alleged or the day alleged in the indictment and say that this defendant is the one that hit her."
He explained how because she does not want to testify, the negotiation is for Spencer to accept a plea of “one count of cruelty in the third degree to children; misdemeanor charge; 12 months, all of which on probation; a $500 fine.” He was also ordered to have no violent contact with the victim.
Accepting the deal would make the victim free of being charged with making a false report of a crime.
Spencer was not prosecuted for the other charges against him.
But the family drama didn’t end there. He found himself in court yet again in when he was charged with family violence battery and cruelty to children in the third degree against his wife and daughter in 2013.
He asked to be immune from prosecution because he was “defending his property against the alleged victim.”
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“The alleged victim has taken his property and any action taken by the defendant was to retrieve his property and was defense of his property,” the court papers read.
Spencer pled not guilty in March 2015 and was not prosecuted.
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