Oklahoma state rep Ty Burns pleads guilty to domestic abuse and assault after trying to 'gouge' wife's eye out

[essentialsaltes]

Oklahoma state Rep. Ty Burns, a Republican, pleaded guilty to domestic abuse and two misdemeanor assault charges on Thursday over incidents in which he attacked his wife and daughter.

Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation agents relayed that Burns wife told them "that last Thanksgiving holiday (2024), [she] made plans to do something with friends and Ty got mad at her,” the agent wrote.

“[She] told Ty he was too controlling, and that she was going. Ty followed [his wife] into the bathroom. Ty was pointing at [her] and then forcefully tried to gouge her eye out with his finger. Ty broke a blood vessel in [her] eye. As a result of her eye injury, [she] could not go to work the whole next week. [The family friend] confirmed having seen [her friend] with injury to her eye," the agent said in the report.

Burns wasn't given any jail time, only a one-year "suspended sentence" with a mandatory batterer's intervention program.

 

[RileyG]

Awful !

 

[Servus]

He's a REPUBLICAN.

 

[7thKeeper]

He's a REPUBLICAN.

How astute.

 

[durangodawood]

He's a REPUBLICAN.

Well spotted. Sharp eye!

 

[Servus]

How astute.

Just adding emphasis to what's most pertinent.

 

[7thKeeper]

Just adding emphasis to what's most pertinent.

You think it's more important what party he belongs (belonged?) to than that he's a domestic abuser? Wow...

 

[Servus]

You think it's more important what party he belongs (belonged?) to than that he's a domestic abuser? Wow...

Unfortunately there's numerous cases of domestic abuse in the news. I suspect this story, out of all the others, was chosen because of politics. So there's not really any wow factor involved.

 

[7thKeeper]

Unfortunately there's numerous cases of domestic abuse in the news. I suspect this story, out of all the others, was chosen because of politics. So there's not really any wow factor involved.

Well of course it was raised up because of politics. A state politician caught doing this sort of stuff is a bit more newsworthy than your average Joe doing it.

 

[Servus]

Well of course it was raised up because of politics. A state politician caught doing this sort of stuff is a bit more newsworthy than your average Joe doing it.

Now you're saying him being the member of a political party does matter, which is contrary to what you said before.

 

[7thKeeper]

Now you're saying him being the member of a political party does matter, which is contrary to what you said before.

Quote me on that. You're the one who said that his political party (not that he was a politician) was more important than that he was an abuser. That's what you wrote.
I asked if that was what you meant, you didn't deny it.
My claim is that it's newsworthy because he is a politician (party affiliation doesn't matter) and that's why it made it to the news.
There's a bit of a disconnect between what you claim was said and what was actually written.

 

[Servus]

Quote me on that. You're the one who said that his political party (not that he was a politician) was more important than that he was an abuser. That's what you wrote.
I asked if that was what you meant, you didn't deny it.
My claim is that it's newsworthy because he is a politician (party affiliation doesn't matter) and that's why it made it to the news.
There's a bit of a disconnect between what you claim was said and what was actually written.

Well let's see here. We're both saying the reason why the OP posted this story is because the perpetrator is a minor politician (one out of 101 district representatives). You're saying what party he belongs to has nothing to do with why the OP posted the article, whereas I say it does.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

He's a danger to his family and other people. I hope she divorces him and runs. Before he does it again.

 

[DaisyDay]

Unfortunately there's numerous cases of domestic abuse in the news. I suspect this story, out of all the others, was chosen because of politics. So there's not really any wow factor involved.

He's an elected official [current and at the time of the incident] who got off with an extremely light sentence after abusing his wife.

In a separate incident, Burns got into an argument with his wife and one of her friends in April, where he attempted "to run a vehicle that [the friend] was driving off the road and striking said vehicle with his hands while screaming and making threats of violence."

“The OSBI received the Pawnee County Sheriff’s report along with recorded interviews, a statement, audio/video of interviews, and video depicting a time Ty Burns was chasing [the friend and Burns’ child] in his pickup truck as [the woman] was driving a van,” the OSBI agent wrote.
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