Prosecutors say an Antioch man pushed a woman and then repeatedly punched a child in the head after the juvenile tried intervening to stop his mother from being battered in Wauconda.
Brian A. Jarrett, 39, of Antioch, was charged with one count of domestic battery with prior conviction, a Class 4 felony.
The Wauconda Police Department responded around 11:20 p.m. last Tuesday to a home for a report of a domestic disturbance in progress.
Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Mary Vukovich said officers spoke to Jarrett’s mother who reported that the man had been knocking things over in the home.
She directed officers to the back of the home where Jarrett was uncooperative and intoxicated, Vukovich said.
Officers also spoke to a teenage victim who reported he had been punched in the head multiple times by Jarrett.
Vukovich said officers spoke with a woman who reported she went to a holiday party with her children and returned home, at which point an argument ensued with Jarrett.
Jarrett had been drinking all day and the two began pushing each other, Vukovich said.
The teenage victim then intervened to help his mother and Jarrett began punching the child in the head with a closed fist, Vukovich said.
Vukovich said Jarrett began throwing items and destroying things inside the home.
Jarrett was on pre-trial release in two separate felony Lake County cases at the time of the offense.
One of those cases involved another felony domestic battery that occurred on April 28 in Wauconda involving the same woman as the new case.
The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office filed a petition to detain Jarrett following the April arrest but a judge denied it and released him with conditions of no drugs or alcohol and no contact with the woman or her residence in Wauconda.
Jarrett was then arrested again on August 17 for a felony possession of a controlled substance charge in Wauconda.
Prosecutors did not file a petition to revoke his pre-trial release despite the violation of his pre-trial release conditions in the prior case and he was released.
Prosecutors have since filed petitions to revoke his pre-trial release in both cases and a petition to detain his latest case.
Lake County Judge James Newman granted all of the petitions during a detention hearing on Thursday.
The judge said Jarrett poses a threat to the family and that no conditions of release could mitigate the threat.
Jarrett is scheduled to appear in court again on January 14 for a status of preliminary hearing.