Crime & Safety

St. Peters Man Charged With Hitting His Wife

Police said the man hit his wife and pushed her against a wall.

A St. Peters man was charged Friday with third-degree domestic assault.

said in a report that Joseph Bottini, 31, of the 800 block of Millwood Drive, punched his wife in the face, pushed her against a wall threatened to hit her children Thursday.

Police said the victim scratched Bottini’s face and ran outside. Bottini convinced her to come back inside, where he pushed her into a wall again.

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The woman’s cheek was red and swollen, she had a cut on her elbow and dried blood on her hands and arms. Bottini had a cut under his eye and on his elbow.

Police said the two were arguing over disciplining their children.

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Bottini pleaded guilty to domestic assault in 2011 and was arrested for resisting arrest Dec. 27.


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