shanahan, patrick

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/william-shanahan-defense-secretary-son-wife-violence.html

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn his nomination to lead the Defense Department in a permanent capacity. Minutes after Shanahan made thisannouncement, the Washington Postpublishedexcerpts from a document Shanahan wrote in 2011, in which he defended the conduct of his then–17-year-old son, William, after William Shanahan beat his mother, Kimberley—who was Patrick Shanahan’s ex-wife—with a baseball bat. The younger Shanahan was subsequently convicted of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Here is the Post’s description of the incident, which took place in Florida in 2011 after a verbal argument between William Shanahan and his mother, who now goes by the name Kimberley Jordinson:

William, Sarasota police wrote, struck several blows to his mother’s head and torso and left her “to lie in a pool of blood” and then “unplugged the landline phone cord depriving the victim and [the younger brother] the use of 911 to render aid.”

Jordinson suffered a fractured skull and fractured elbow. At a court hearing days later, an attorney retained by Patrick Shanahan argued that keeping William Shanahan in jail would have an unfairly adverse impact on his baseball career:

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