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By Lauren FitzPatrick Staff writer
A recent evening of drinking turned ugly between a 33-year-old Sauk Village man and his 62-year-old lady friend.
A quarrel between the unlikely lovers spiraled into a punchout, costing her an eye and him, for now, his freedom.
Police charged William Plamondon, of 2911 Peach Tree Avenue in Sauk Village, with a single count of aggravated domestic battery. He is being held on $150,000 in the Cook County Jail.
Plamondon and Kathleen Nelson, his lady friend of about a year and a half, began fighting Saturday night at her home in the 22500 block of Spencer Avenue, Sauk Village, Deputy Chief Thomas Mountford said.
The brouhaha moved onto the front porch, where neighbors could hear the fighting, Mountford said.
By the time police arrived, the lady's left eye had popped out of its socket, after Plamondon hit her with a closed fist, Mountford said.
It was still dangling from its optic nerve when paramedics showed up, said Marcy Jensen, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State's Attorney.
Nelson was treated at St. James Medical Center in Olympia Fields for a fractured eye socket, Mountford said, adding that the eyeball could not be saved.
"It just was one of those fluke hits," the veteran officer said.
Nelson could not be reached for comment by telephone Wednesday.
Plamondon's mother, Rebecca Plamondon, said the relationship has been crazy, especially when the pair imbibes.
"I'm sure they had been drinking," she said. "Alcohol tends to make people a little bizarre."
Still, the couple had no history of domestic violence, police said.
Plamondon said she has spoken with Nelson since the woman was released from intensive care. She described Nelson as "frail," and said her son is "on the slow side."
The pair live less than a mile apart; Nelson lives even closer to William Plamondon's sister, which is how Rebecca Plamondon believes the couple met.
"I feel really bad, because normally my son's a nice boy," she said. "I'm sorry about the whole thing. I'm sorry for her, too."
This kind of eye accident is rare but not unheard of, according to a spokeswoman at Christ Medical Center.
Normally the person has been hit with a blunt object, like a 2-by-4 or a falling brick, Deborah Song said. Sometimes, she said, the injury doesn't surface for a few days.
"You need tremendous intracranial pressure for an eyeball to pop out," Song said.
By Lauren FitzPatrick Staff writer
A recent evening of drinking turned ugly between a 33-year-old Sauk Village man and his 62-year-old lady friend.
A quarrel between the unlikely lovers spiraled into a punchout, costing her an eye and him, for now, his freedom.
Police charged William Plamondon, of 2911 Peach Tree Avenue in Sauk Village, with a single count of aggravated domestic battery. He is being held on $150,000 in the Cook County Jail.
Plamondon and Kathleen Nelson, his lady friend of about a year and a half, began fighting Saturday night at her home in the 22500 block of Spencer Avenue, Sauk Village, Deputy Chief Thomas Mountford said.
The brouhaha moved onto the front porch, where neighbors could hear the fighting, Mountford said.
By the time police arrived, the lady's left eye had popped out of its socket, after Plamondon hit her with a closed fist, Mountford said.
It was still dangling from its optic nerve when paramedics showed up, said Marcy Jensen, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State's Attorney.
Nelson was treated at St. James Medical Center in Olympia Fields for a fractured eye socket, Mountford said, adding that the eyeball could not be saved.
"It just was one of those fluke hits," the veteran officer said.
Nelson could not be reached for comment by telephone Wednesday.
Plamondon's mother, Rebecca Plamondon, said the relationship has been crazy, especially when the pair imbibes.
"I'm sure they had been drinking," she said. "Alcohol tends to make people a little bizarre."
Still, the couple had no history of domestic violence, police said.
Plamondon said she has spoken with Nelson since the woman was released from intensive care. She described Nelson as "frail," and said her son is "on the slow side."
The pair live less than a mile apart; Nelson lives even closer to William Plamondon's sister, which is how Rebecca Plamondon believes the couple met.
"I feel really bad, because normally my son's a nice boy," she said. "I'm sorry about the whole thing. I'm sorry for her, too."
This kind of eye accident is rare but not unheard of, according to a spokeswoman at Christ Medical Center.
Normally the person has been hit with a blunt object, like a 2-by-4 or a falling brick, Deborah Song said. Sometimes, she said, the injury doesn't surface for a few days.
"You need tremendous intracranial pressure for an eyeball to pop out," Song said.
