The Disturbing
footage of a model covered in bruises and cowering away from her violent
husband has emerged as she reveals the verbal and physical abuse she's
endured since they exchanged vows. Photos after the cut.
Berenger
Rose, 27, from Sydney, held her hands over her face and wept as she
begged her husband Shane Cuthbert, 25, to stop hurting her after she
claims he beat her with a pole, filmed her reaction and sent it to his
friends as a sick joke, a Current Affair reported.
'Please
stop, you're hurting me' she said in a trembling voice as he instructs
her to show him her legs which are covered in black and blue bruises.
'Berenger Rose, the cover model,' Mr Cuthbert mocks.
In the last
six months of her short-lived union Ms Rose said she was violently
bashed 'maybe everyday' and felt like a 'prisoner' in her own home.
Mr
Cuthbert had started tracking her movements, controlled her phone and
would not allow her to leave the house for work or make contact with the
outside world.
He
even stacked up a pile of furniture to create a makeshift barricade to
stop Ms Rose from leaving the house - forcing her to face the barrage of
physical and emotional abuse head on.
The
pair met after Mr Cuthbert approached the attractive blonde on
Instagram. He charmed his way into her home in a month and had popped
the question by their second month anniversary.
Once
they were wed Ms Rose said he forced her to move from her home and life
in Sydney to Mackay - a remote town in northern Queensland where she
had no one to turn to.
She said
'It was like he was joined to me,' she told A Current Affair.'There was no privacy. I couldn't go to the bathroom with the door closed.'Ms Rose said she would often lay awake in fear that she would become another domestic violence statistic.'Every day, I thought "I am going to be that next victim. I am going to be that next woman that gets killed",' Ms Rose said.
The
emotional torture worsened for Ms Rose when she said she sat alone on
the cold tiles of her bathroom floor and miscarried their child while Mr
Cuthbert spent the night out drinking with friends.
Fearing
for her life, Ms Rose said she did not report the abuse and despite
being knocked out on a number of occasions she was never allowed to
visit a hospital for treatment.
'He
would call me crazy. Tell me that I was the one abusing him and I
believed him. I thought I was the one with the problem,' Ms Rose said.
According
to A Current Affair, Mr Cuthbert has an extensive criminal history and
had even featured on the television program as an 'out of control child'
whose parents were struggling with his Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
diagnosis.
The
25-year-old is currently in police custody and is expected to face a
string of charges in Mackay Magistrates Court on March 16.
He
has been charged over making and detonating an explosive device in
Bowen on Christmas Eve, as well as one count of willful damage and one
count of contravening a domestic violence order which occurred on
February 29, according to police.
It is not known if Ms Rose has spoken to police about the allegations she made against her husband on a Current Affair.
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