Restraining nothing
January 15, 2004
Toledo Blade
Stabbing victim had order for protection
Husband surrendered to authorities Tuesday
An Antwerp, Ohio, woman who police said was stabbed by her estranged husband Tuesday had a protection order against him for herself and their two children, court records show.
The protection order, effective through 2008, also granted Rachel Clifford, 35, exclusive possession of the couple’s rural Antwerp home near U.S. 24, where the stabbing occurred.
Charles Clifford, 45, who was charged with stabbing Ms. Clifford repeatedly, fled the scene but turned himself in to authorities about nine hours after the Tuesday-morning attack.
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Mr. Clifford was being held last night at the Paulding County jail, pending an arraignment this morning in Paulding County Court. Mr. Clifford faces one count of felonious assault.
Ms. Clifford was taken to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., where hospital officials said no information was available about her condition. Paulding County Sheriff David Harrow said her injuries were serious, but not life threatening.
The domestic incident - coupled with the suspect’s fleeing the scene - prompted lock-downs during the remainder of the school day Tuesday at Antwerp Local and Paulding Exempted Village districts, where the couple’s two children are students. A third school in Defiance County, Ayersville Local, went into a partial lock-down because one of the children had attended there for a short period in the fall.
Later that evening, Mr. Clifford went to the Defiance post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, where Paulding County deputies went and picked him up.
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