Ex-wife of Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens accuses him of abuse
Eric Greiten's ex-wife is attempting to spare the kids from the general public consideration within the wake of his bid for a political comeback.
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The previous spouse of onetime Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, now a number one Republican US Senate candidate, has accused him of bodily abusing her and their kids on the finish of their marriage, court docket paperwork filed Monday reveal.
Sheena Greitens alleged within the court docket filings that her ex-husband knocked her down, stole her cellphone, struck their kids and threatened to commit suicide if she didn’t publicly help him in the course of the 2018 intercourse scandal that led to him resigning as governor.
She made the disturbing allegations public for the primary time in a sworn affidavit as a part of an ongoing little one custody dispute with Greitens in Missouri over their two younger sons.
“Previous to our divorce, throughout an argument in late April 2018, Eric knocked me down and confiscated my cellular phone, pockets and keys in order that I used to be unable to name for assist or extricate myself and our kids from our residence,” Sheena alleged within the submitting.
“I turned afraid for my security and that of our kids at our residence, which was pretty remoted, as a result of Eric’s unstable and coercive conduct,” she added. “This conduct included bodily violence towards our kids, comparable to cuffing our then three-year-old son throughout the face on the dinner desk in entrance of me and yanking him round by the hair.”
Greitens’ marketing campaign supervisor, Dylan Johnson, dismissed the allegations as “fully false” and “politically-motivated.”
“His ex-wife is engaged in a last-ditch try to vindictively destroy her ex-husband,” Johnson mentioned in a press release. “Eric has at all times been an awesome Dad, who loves his boys and has at all times put them first, and that's the reason he's submitting for full custody of his kids.”
Missouri Lawyer Basic Eric Schmitt, one in every of Greitens’ rivals, tweeted in response to the submitting: “These allegations of abuse are disgusting and sickening. As Missouri’s lawyer basic, I do know a predator once I see one, and I've fought for victims each step of the best way. The conduct described on this affidavit is trigger for Eric Greitens to be in jail, not on the poll for U.S. Senate. He ought to finish his marketing campaign instantly.”
Eric and Sheena Greitens’ relationship collapsed 4 years in the past when he was accused of taking a compromising picture of his hairdresser with out her consent after they had been within the midst of an extramarital affair in 2015.
Greitens was indicted on an invasion-of-privacy cost after the picture, which confirmed the undressed lady blindfolded and sure, was made public in January 2018. The cost towards Greitens — a former Navy SEAL and Rhodes Scholar — was later dropped by prosecutors.
A Missouri Home committee then started investigating marketing campaign finance points and Greitens confronted a second felony cost in St. Louis the place he was accused of offering his political fundraiser with the donor checklist of his veterans’ charity.
Within the affidavit, Sheena alleged her scandal-plagued husband had admitted to her that he took the compromising picture of his mistress, however warned she may face authorized hassle if she ever disclosed that reality to anybody — even her therapist.
Within the leadup to his resignation as governor in Could 2018, Sheena claimed Greitens had purchased a gun however refused to inform her the place it was. She additionally alleged that he threatened to kill himself “until I supplied particular public political help.”
His conduct had grow to be so alarming, Sheena alleged, that on three separate events in February, April and Could 2018, “a number of individuals apart from myself had been frightened sufficient to intervene to restrict Eric’s entry to firearms.”
Sheena claimed Greitens additionally threatened her when he was attempting to persuade her to delete emails she had despatched to her therapist looking for assist.
“Eric threatened to accuse me of kid abuse if I didn't delete the emails and persuade the therapist to delete them,” she wrote within the affidavit, which additionally alleged Greitens berated her as a “hateful, disgusting, nasty, vicious … mendacity b— h” as he accused her of offering details about him and his scandals to prosecutors and the media.
Sheena additional claims Greitens threatened to make use of his political connections and affect to destroy her popularity and achieve custody of their kids after their divorce was finalized in 2020.
Whereas Greitens largely stored a low profile within the wake of his resignation, that modified when the Missouri Ethics Fee final 12 months cleared him personally of any wrongdoing — regardless of discovering possible trigger that his marketing campaign broke marketing campaign finance regulation.
Then, the once-rising GOP star introduced in March final 12 months that he would run for the Senate seat being vacated by fellow Republican Roy Blunt.
Sheena is attempting to have the custody case moved to Austin, Texas — the place she now lives along with her sons — in a bid to spare the kids from renewed public consideration within the wake of Greitens’ bid for a political comeback.
She wrote in her affidavit that Greitens’ return to politics had been taxing on her and the facility he would acquire as a senator was “extraordinarily intimidating.”
“Now that Eric is a candidate for federal workplace, public curiosity in my life, my relationship with Eric and the breakdown thereof, and the existence of problems with custody between Eric and me are being re-kindled and introduced again into central public dialogue,” Sheena wrote earlier than urging a choose to maneuver the matter to the place “the attain of his energy and affect is considerably much less.”
With Publish wires
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