Abarca Denies Assault In Conversation With Kansas City Star

Most of this report is summary BUT . . . This quote offers a glimpse at the limited deets in the midst of a messy domestic drama . . .

Here's what the Legislator has to say for now . . . 

“There’s a world where I don’t have a place to live, I don’t have access to my clothes, I don’t have access to my car, I lose my job, I lose my other job and I lose my kids,” he said. “Not to mention, I lose my wife who I love. It’s a unique place.”

Sitting across from me at an Independence coffee shop on Wednesday, Abarca unequivocally denied he assaulted his wife. “It is not within my character to hit my wife,” he said. “To hit anyone is not within my character. I think a majority of folks know that but it’s being challenged now by the narrative. It has killed me to watch the assassination of my character.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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