Man Assaults His Girlfriend During Childbirth

In mid-July 2010, Heather Fox gave birth to her child, Gabriel, fathered by her boyfriend, Marquavious Bell. During the childbirth process in the delivery room at the Women’s Center at Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill, SC, Bell began assaulting his girlfriend physically.

After Fox checked into the hospital to give birth, medical staff in the delivery area had given her some drugs that apparently made her feel groggy. Shortly afterward, Fox and Bell apparently got into an argument. According to the police report, Bell “struck her in the face with an open hand.”

Fox recalls, “The most happiest moment of my life became the worst. I hated it… he snatched the phone out of my hand, hit the part where you talk at [and] he hit me with it. Then, he repeatedly kept hitting me in the head, slapping and hitting my head.”

As Bell’s physical abuse worsened, Fox became even more afraid and she had to call in the nurses for help. She wanted a nurse to be in the room at all times, because she was so afraid he would come back and do something worse. After the nursing staff notified hospital security, Bell fled the hospital and was not arrested until two weeks passed.

The fact that Bell couldn’t control his physically abusive reactions is stunning, especially due to the fact that his girlfriend was giving birth at the time. Unfortunately, this is not the only time the couple has had disagreements.

After this domestically violent incident, Fox advises all women: “Don’t stay. After the first hit, leave. Do what you have to do to leave, don’t stay.”

She wants her baby, Gabriel, to grow up in a safer environment, and believes that moving to another area in the country is the best solution. She wants him to learn that “hands are for holding, not hitting.”

While Fox was giving birth at the hospital, Bell had also destroyed all of the baby’s supplies, food, clothing, etc. Bell is now being held at the York County Detention Center on a $50,000 bond.

adopted from Clover News (WBTV)