A Summerfield man with a violent past who lives just outside the walls of The Villages was arrested Sunday after a pregnant woman sought help at an Ocala hospital.
Marion County sheriff’s deputies were called to West Marion Community Hospital on Saturday after the woman told a nurse that 33-year-old Amos Lee Hall allegedly had battered her. The nurse told deputies that she had observed a visible contusion on the woman’s face and verified through a test that she was pregnant, a sheriff’s office report states, adding that deputies also saw the contusion under the victim’s left eye near her cheek.
The victim told deputies that she had been in a verbal altercation with Hall in his vehicle. She said she reached for her keys and cell phone and attempted to leave the vehicle but Hall stopped her by grabbing her wrist and then pushed her out by her face, the report says.
The victim also told deputies that Hall knew she was pregnant for at least three months prior to the incident because she had sent him multiple photos of positive pregnancy tests via text messages, the report says.
Hall was located the following day and taken into custody. He was transported to the Marion County Jail and charged with domestic battery with the caveat that he should have known the victim was pregnant. He was released Monday on $500 bond and is due in court May 29 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charge.
Hall is no stranger to the Marion County legal system, having also been arrested in August 2018 on a charge of domestic battery by strangulation. But that charge eventually was dropped/abandoned after an assistant state attorney submitted a document to the court stating: “Although there was probable cause for the arrest, based on the facts and circumstances of the case, the likelihood of conviction at jury trial is remote.”
