Florida Woman Accused of Dildo Attack Wants Charges Dismissed

Winnie McCroy READ TIME: 2 MIN.

The Florida woman who was allegedly hit in the face with a dildo during an argument with her girlfriend has had second thoughts due to all of the media attention, and has asked a judge to dismiss the domestic battery charge she filed, describing the coverage of the incident as an "indescribable" humiliation.

The Smoking Gun reports that in a (very poorly written) July 29 letter to Circuit Court Judge Grissinger, Gamze Capaner-Ridley said that her partner Annette Kielhurn was a "kind, compassionate human being" who "truly doesn't deserve to suffer more than she already has."

The two partners had nearly come to blows on July 11, when Capaner-Ridley was moving out, and the women began arguing over their possessions. After fighting over a dress, the two began arguing over a dildo and who it belonged to.

EDGE reported on the original attack, which took place at the home of 57-year-old Kielhurn and her partner, 47-year-old Capaner-Ridley.

Kielhurn was reportedly arrested while Clearwater Police Department Officer Eric Blomgren watched Capaner-Ridley move her belongings from the home, having filed for civil domestic violence injunction against Kielhurn the previous day.

"Shortly afterwards the defendant intentionally shoved a 'dildo' in the victim's face and grabbed her right arm while arguing who it belonged to," Blomgren said in a police report. "Due to the defendant grabbing the victim and committing the battery in my presence, the defendant was arrested for domestic battery."

In her letter, Capaner-Ridley stated that Kielhurn was "very emotional and upset that I was leaving," but added that she "never felt in danger" during the confrontation with Kielhurn, who has Capaner-Ridley's first name tattooed on her chest.

Blomgren then arrested Kielhurn for domestic battery. Kielhurn, a former New York State corrections officer, was booked on a misdemeanor charged and was released from custody after posting $500 bond.

This is hardly Kielhurn's first brush with the law; she had been arrested in late June for trespassing after she refused to leave the vape lounge Johnny Vapors in a pending case, and also served about three years in prison for narcotic trafficking in 1996 after police found 25 kilos of cocaine in her rental car.


by Winnie McCroy , EDGE Editor

Winnie McCroy is the Women on the EDGE Editor, HIV/Health Editor, and Assistant Entertainment Editor for EDGE Media Network, handling all women's news, HIV health stories and theater reviews throughout the U.S. She has contributed to other publications, including The Village Voice, Gay City News, Chelsea Now and The Advocate, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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