Brighton woman released after two assault charges laid

In Brighton, a husband allegedly gets punched in the face early in the day, then, while sitting down minding his own business at a computer terminal later in the day, he allegedly gets punched in the face several more times. Two charges of assault are laid against the woman. The news reports that she was then released into the wild.

If a man punched a woman in the face several times, he wouldn’t be released, and if he was, there certainly would be a howl from local feminists, and rightly so. Were there any conditions set for her release? Is she permitted to return to the scene of the assault? In Canada there are no shelters for men who have been assaulted by their spouses, although Stats Can clearly indicates that women assault their spouse almost as often as men.