An 82-year-old Philippines man complained to the police after he was beaten up by his 76-year-old wife.
The Sun.Star reported Friday that the seething Harding Velez was threatening to file criminal charges against his wife Gloria, who used a bamboo stick to beat him several times.
According to police, Velez was hit in various parts of his body while drinking coffee in a store in the early morning of Oct. 9.
“It was so disgraceful that she has to beat me in public,” said Velez, who sought assistance from authority, as he could no longer bear the spousal abuse.
Before Tuesday’s incident, he claimed his wife had previously thrown stones at him and strangled him.
When asked, Gloria said she has had enough of her husband “who does nothing but hold his cellular phone.”
“I was so mad because early in the morning he was out there again doing nothing,” she added.
In a radio interview, she even reprimanded her husband for his alleged philandering ways and for calling their children asking for gambling money.
Police are now in a quandary as to how to deal with the complainant and the suspect because they are both senior citizens.
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