Morgan Absher

And we're really kind of just beginning to study this.

But regardless, this is kind of where Jermaine and Michael stood at this point.

So on her 18th birthday, April 23rd, 2013, Germaine took all of her stuff from her mom's house and officially moved back in with 20-year-old Michael.

Less than a month later, on May 6th, Michael officially pleaded guilty to assaulting Germaine.

He was sentenced to one day in jail with credit for time served, fined, and then he was ordered to complete a domestic violence counseling program for about a year.

I saw on one source it was about a year, but I think it was only like 40 hours.

Yeah.

I would be very curious what the...

curriculum looks like for that program but I was shocked by how many few hours and don't quote me on that I'd have to like look into the exact program but I did see somewhere about that I'm like 40 like like a couple like a work week one work week you have a year to complete 40 hours it just it was underwhelming for me given the severity of this abuse but that is according to Jermaine's relatives who did speak with Connie Walker as well and they said that

That also kind of became Jermaine's problem.

Like, Michael actually blamed her that he had to take time off work and go to these counseling sessions.

Right.

It's her fault that he has to do these sessions.

Because she reported him, which, as she should.

Right.

Like this, it's giving DARPA, which if you're on two outtakes, like you know, this is a common manipulation tactic, but it essentially stands for deny attack and reverse victim and offender.

So the person who is the abuser will often like.

I didn't do that and if you took it that way it wasn't meant to be taken that way and they kind of will then start attacking the victim and then reverse it so it's like it's not my fault I did what I did to you it's your fault that I'm in this situation yes okay that makes sense I feel yeah that comes up a lot in a lot of domestic abuse cases that I read about it's clear that's exactly what the you bring this out in me yes he's darvoing her

And before Michael had even finished this counseling, he and Jermaine did get pregnant with their first little boy.

But pregnancy really didn't protect Jermaine from Michael's temper.