Wife presses charges against husband for unwanted spanking

A man has been arrested for spanking his wife after she allegedly intervened to stop him from spanking their daughter.

The defendant, William Anderson, is charged with domestic assault on his wife, Denise Anderson, after the incident at their home over the weekend.

According to police reports, Mrs. Anderson stopped her husband as he was spanking her 4-year-old daughter. The spanking of the child, Mr. Anderson explained, came after his young daughter hit him with a brush.

?The girl hit Mr. Anderson with a hair brush on his butt,? the warrant for his arrest reads. ?He hit the 4-year-old on the butt with his hand and told her to stop. She did it again and he became enraged.?

At that point the mother jumped in front of her daughter to stop Mr. Anderson. However, when his wife intervened in the spanking, Mr. Anderson reportedly transferred the spanking to her. Specifically she said Mr. Anderson grabbed her arm and hit her on the rear with his hand three times.

?She got her daughter behind her and he told him to leave the girl alone,? the warrant reads. ?William then told Denise that he would ?bust her tail? instead.?

The unwanted spanking, in turn, prompted a call to police who took a domestic violence report. Mr. Anderson was later charged with domestic assault for the incident.

If convicted he could face up to one year in jail and forfeiture of his gun ownership rights for the rest of his life. He will face hearing on his charges before General Sessions Judge Larry Ross on Jan. 23.