Bush cousin: ‘I attacked ex-wife’
AMERICA’S Bush clan was plunged into scandal last night after a cousin of former US president George W. Bush admitted violently attacking his first wife.
Court documents revealed that Jonathan Bush confessed to ‘numerous physical altercations’ with former wife Sarah Seldon, including ‘repeatedly slamming his closed fist into her sternum [breastbone]… just inches from their baby’.
The details of Bush’s domestic abuse were filed with a family court during a 2006 custody battle over the couple’s five children. The former Mrs Bush alleged that Mr Bush had ‘struck her on numerous occasions’. A second submission claims that Bush’s behaviour became ‘more and more aggressive’. It says that he had ‘screamed at her, directly into her face, calling her a “whore”… while pushing her into the wall and repeatedly slamming his fist into her sternum, his hand landing just inches from their baby. The wife testified that she was very afraid for her own safety and that of the child in her arms.’
It adds that Mr Bush had acknowledged that such an incident took place.
In a statement, Jonathan Bush, CEO of an IT healthcare firm, said he took ‘complete responsibility’ for the incidents. ‘I have worked very hard since then to demonstrate my remorse,’ he said in a statement to the MoS.