O’Shaughnessy: Domestic abuse a lethal tinderbox
Feb 11
Thursday, Mar 17th 2011, 4:00 AM
Like something out of Shakespeare, Flavio Godoy injected his common-law wife, Erlendy Flores, with cyanide in their Kingsbridge apartment, and afterwards drank a poison himself. He died right away; she lingered for some-more than a day in a coma before succumbing.
Tina Adovasio of Throgs Neck is missing. Her husband, Edward Coello, was forced to quit a NYPD since of reports of domestic abuse opposite his initial wife, and Adovasio’s family fears that she might have been killed by him, after years of violence.
These dual cases unfolded final weekend in a Bronx, as courtesy was riveted to a Brooklyn patrolman who was pushed to his genocide while handcuffing a domestic abuse suspect. Police Officer Alain Schaberger’s genocide illustrated a sensitivity of these cases for cops who respond.
The dual Bronx cases uncover how bomb a conditions can unexpected spin for a victims.
Both women had taken movement to finish a relationship, that is mostly a flashpoint for a batterer.
Flores was make-up her garments to leave Godoy; Adovasio filed for divorce final month.
“If there is a history, and it culminates in murder, it’s customarily when a victim/survivor is perplexing to leave,” pronounced Lisa Haileselassie, domestic assault coordinator during a Crime Victims Treatment Center during St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital.
“Domestic assault is about energy and control, and if a survivor takes stairs to leave, or even if she is meditative about it, a batterer picks adult on that.”
A neighbor pronounced he mostly listened screaming and sounds of assault entrance from 4C, Flores’ and Godoy’s fourth-floor apartment. But military have never been to a home for a domestic incident, nor did Flores have an sequence of protection.
Adovasio and Coello had been in military reports during slightest 3 times. Adovasio’s mom pronounced Coello had blackened her daughter’s eyes and gave her injuries requiring stitches.
Last Saturday night, Flores and Godoy argued, and Flores fled to her sister’s unit one building down in a building during 130 W. 195th St.
Godoy’s 20-year-old daughter left with her, and called 911 to news arguing in 4C, identifying herself as a neighbor. Flores took a cab to her brother’s home for a night.
When 50th Precinct unit officers arrived they found customarily Godoy, and he told them zero had happened. The cops questioned a building super and his wife, who pronounced they knew of no problems in 4C. They searched a unit and left, after filing a news of a domestic incident.
Flores and her brother, Dixon, returned to her unit on Sunday evening. The hermit waited outward in a automobile while Flores retrieved her belongings.
Godoy stranded a syringe into Flores’ buttock, afterwards drank a crater of potion and forsaken to a floor.
She called 911, and yelled out a window to her brother, “He stabbed me!”
When Dixon Flores got upstairs, Flores was semiconscious, though she over into a coma and died Monday during New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where Godoy was passed on arrival.
“This form of carnage is not common,” pronounced Haileselassie. “It’s customarily earthy attack, strangulation, stabbing.”
Cyanide poisoning is only not something we design to hear about. Neither is failing from a 9-foot fall, that killed Officer Schaberger since he fell right on his head.
His genocide brought to mind a initial time a city patrolman died while responding to domestic violence.
It was in 1996 in a 50th Precinct, not distant from Flores’ apartment, and happened when cops attempted to fetter a suspect. The male resisted, and in a onslaught Police Officer Vincent Guidice fell on a cracked mirror, and a shard of potion cut his femoral artery. The large detriment of blood led to his heart giving out.
At his funeral, then-Mayor Giuliani said, “We have to find a improved approach to report domestic violence. It sounds somehow benign, and it isn’t.”
poshaughnessy@nydailynews.com