Woman testifies about cell phone in throat Wed Jul 26, 8:56 PM ET
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - Prosecutors say a man shoved a cell phone down his
girlfriend's throat because he was angry and jealous. But defense attorneys
insisted as a trial got underway that the woman swallowed the phone
intentionally to keep the defendant from seeing whom she had been calling.
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Marlon Brando Gill, 24, is charged with first-degree assault in the December
incident involving 25-year-old Melinda Abell. Abell has given inconsistent
accounts of what happened before she was taken to a hospital, where an
emergency room doctor removed the phone.
She testified Tuesday on the first day of Gill's trial that she couldn't
remember how the phone got in her throat, saying she had too much to drink that
night.
She said in court that she could not recall writing a statement to police after
the incident, in which she said: "I think he thought I'd been talking to other
guys. ... He took my phone to see who I had been calling."
The statement added: "If I didn't want him to see my phone, I would have just
thrown it out the window and busted it."
Much of her testimony centered on her relationship with Gill, of Kansas City,
which started in 2004.
"It was good at first, then it got rocky," Abell said.
She testified that he had verbally and physically abused her, but under
cross-examination she acknowledged she never told police about the abuse and
continued to live with Gill until the cell phone incident.
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