{"id":1294,"date":"2023-03-16T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T13:22:20","slug":"janet-punchout-protasiewicz-accused-of-elder-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Janet \u201cPunchout\u201d Protasiewicz Accused of Elder Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/03\/16\/janet-punchout-protasiewicz-accused-of-elder-abuse\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=janet-punchout-protasiewicz-accused-of-elder-abuse<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow. I admit that when I first heard about this story that I thought it was just campaign FUD put out by activists. Thankfully, Wisconsin Right Now posted the videos so that we could see the accuser in his own word<\/a>s. He is incredibly credible.<\/p>\n

Short version: When Protasiewicz was in her 30s, she married a man in his 70s, allegedly verbally and physically abused him, and then he divorced her less than a year later. She sought a hefty payout in the divorce settlement.<\/p>\n

Is she so soft on violent criminals because she sees herself in them? Is she so willing to let violent criminals off the hook as some sort of warped atonement for her own past behavior? Who is this person?<\/p>\n

Go read the whole story. Watch the videos. Use your brain. Judge for yourself.<\/p>\n

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The former stepson of Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate\u00a0Janet Protasiewicz<\/a>\u00a0alleges that Protasiewicz repeatedly assaulted her then-husband \u2013 his elderly father Patrick J. Madden \u2013 by allegedly slapping Madden with an open hand so hard that she left part of a handprint on his face and aggressively pushing the 70-year-old veteran judge so forcefully that he injured his shoulder and almost fell.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI saw it with my own two eyes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was physical abuse brought on and fueled by alcoholism,\u201d Michael alleged. He said he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d characterize the abuse as assaults by Protasiewicz.\u00a0\u201cI would say it was elder abuse.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0He says he would be willing to testify under oath and challenged\u00a0Protasiewicz<\/a>\u00a0to sit with him at a kitchen table with journalists and discuss<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe was belligerent and pushed him and slapped him dozens of times, dozens of times,\u201d Michael Madden said in an interview this week. \u201cIt happened on a fairly regular basis. At night, the whole thing would kind of break down. He was, again, 70 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pushing was close to knocking him over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael was 35 then, only a year older than Protasiewicz when she married Patrick Madden in 1997. Patrick Madden was 70 when he married Protasiewicz, who was less than half his age.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/03\/16\/janet-punchout-protasiewicz-accused-of-elder-abuse\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=janet-punchout-protasiewicz-accused-of-elder-abuse Wow. I admit that when I first heard about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}