Facebook inactivity leads to domestic violence incident

It's finally happened. A man in Texas is now facing battery charges and pleading not guilty for assaulting his wife. Her crime?

October 10, 2011 / 10:40 IST

A man in Texas is now facing battery charges and pleading not guilty for assaulting his wife. Her crime? She didn't hit 'like' on his Facebook status update. The man, Benito Apolinar, had posted an update to Facebook about the death anniversary of his mother. When he saw that his wife of 15 years had not responded to that status update, he confronted her after he dropped their children off at her home in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

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first published: Oct 10, 2011 10:33 am

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