A Tampa woman has decided that public shame is punishment enough for the man she says beat her up.
Alisha Hessler told her assailant Gabriel Urena that he could either stand on the street corner for eight hours with a sign that admitted he was wrong, or face charges, she told Fox 13 in Tampa.
“I think it will teach him a lesson,” she told the news station. “I think he’ll think twice about doing it again.”
The station Wednesday found Urena at a busy intersection in Tampa, holding a sign that read “I beat women. Honk if I’m a scumbag.” He was wearing a tall, white dunce cap.
Hessler said she met Urena while she was out clubbing with friends. They got into an altercation when Hessler rejected Urena’s advances, and she told Fox 13 that Urena gave her a concussion and a bloody nose.
“I didn’t want him to be locked up for a year,” she said of her decision to forgo formal charges. “I honestly don’t think that would teach him anything.”
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