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From: cblasey@paloaltou.edu

A disturbing and graphic video appearing to show a hulking
bodybuilder pummel his girlfriend surfaced Wednesday as the man
remains jailed in Michigan after what attorneys are calling a
“roid rage” attack.

The footage, obtained by Fox2Detroit, shows 35-year-old Paul
Bashi punching, kicking and throwing lit candles at 22-year-old
Kristina Perry inside his rental home in Washington Township in
late July. At one point in the video, his arm is covered in
blood as he heaves a canister at Perry, who is pressed up
against a wall and a couch.

“Time and time and time again this defendant beat her as she lay
motionless on the ground,” Assistant Macomb County Prosecutor
Jordan Fields told a court Monday, according to the Macomb
Daily. “How she did not die, I have no idea. She should have
died that day, judge.”

Bashi is currently in Macomb County Jail on a $5 million bond
and is facing one count of assault with intent to murder and one
count of controlled substance with intent to
deliver/manufacture. Investigators that responded to the home
after the attack were reported to have found cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, ecstasy and a substance that contains human
growth hormone.

“The defendant at that time was using great quantities of
steroids preparing for a national body-building competition,”
his attorney, David Griem, said during the court hearing Monday,
according to the Macomb Daily. “I believe that what happened
that day was something that’s referred to as ‘roid rage,’ short
for steroid rage.”

County prosecutors say Perry was kicked more than 100 times and
was stabbed repeatedly during the 40-minute assault. Bashi was
arrested after neighbors found Perry on the home’s front porch.

Perry has recovered after being in a coma for days – but then
appeared this week at the hearing to ask for the charges against
Bashi to be dropped.

"She told the judge she wanted the defendant out of jail, and
told the judge that it was her fault this happened," Macomb
County Prosecutor Eric Smith told Fox2Detroit.

The judge handling the case reportedly referred the matter to
Macomb County Community Corrections and asked the agency to
investigate further.

Smith though said defendants often put “pressure on the victim
to dismiss the charges."

"Our office handles about 2,500 domestic violence cases a year,"
he said in an interview with Fox2Detroit. "Of those cases 60
percent of the victims either recant their story or don't show
up to the court at all."

"If you see someone going through this and you think someone is
going through this, even though they say they are not -- they
are afraid to come forward," he added. "You have got to step in
and help."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/26/warning-graphic-video- footage-captures-bodybuilder-pummeling-girlfriend-in-roid-rage- attack.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork

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