A Simcoe, Ont., woman is dealing with a cost of assault with a weapon over an incident the place, she says, she unintentionally struck a neighbour within the chest with water from a toddler’s water gun.
Ontario Provincial Police say 58-year-old Wendy Washik was taken into custody after an investigation on Sunday, Sept. 1.
OPP say police decided two folks had been concerned in a “dispute” that resulted in a sufferer being bodily assaulted however no accidents had been reported.
Washik says she was having a playful water gun combat with a toddler at a celebration when she unintentionally sprayed water on a neighbour’s chest.
She says that regardless of her apologies, the person referred to as police, which in the end led to her being charged.
Requested to verify the weapon used was a water gun, OPP spokesperson Const. Andrew Gamble says it might be “inappropriate” to touch upon specifics of the case.
Washik stated police “did not ask me a single query. They did not ask to see the water gun. Not one query requested… My husband was in disbelief.”
“I apologized a number of occasions,” she stated. “He would not take heed to me and he was screaming at me.”
The water gun belonged to the kid she was enjoying with and was no larger than the size of her elbow to the tip of her finger, she stated.
Washik stated she is an academic assistant with the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District College Board and can’t return to work till the case is settled. She instructed Ontario Chronicle “I completely perceive why I’m off work. I work with mother and father. I work with youngsters. It is publicly funded.”
Washik’s daughter has began a fundraising marketing campaign to lift cash for her authorized charges forward of her scheduled court docket look on Sept. 24.
“I have been so careworn, mentally and financially,” she stated.
Washik stated the state of affairs has put a pressure on her household however she’s “astounded” by the help she’s acquired.
“Folks I have never talked to for most likely 10-15 years have reached out,” she stated. “I feel with out that it might have been a lot, a lot tougher.”
