Friday, December 28, 2012

Tracey Thurman and the Case Against Charles Thurman

Facts in the Case of the Tracey Thurman Domestic Violence Issue
by Traciy Curry-Reyes



The Crime

Tracey Thurman had been staying at the home of a friend at the time of her attack. The attack took place in the backyard of the friends home according to sources. She was stabbed a total of 13 times between her head, neck, and arms. She was also severely beaten. As this was happening there were two cops observing the incident from the patrol car. It was not until they actually observed Charles stabbing Tracey that they tried to intervene. The neighbors were outraged. According to witnesses some of the neighbors were actually yelling and screaming at the cops to do something. Charles was finally arrested and convicted of 1st degree assault. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. That sentence was later reduced when he went back to court in 1987. He plead guilty that time and received the lesser sentence with the opportunity to earn good time credit while in prison. Charles was released in 1991 at about 12:30am. He stated that he had no interest in pursuing his ex wife Tracey, and that he was going to stay as far away from her as possible. His plan was to relocate to Kentucky, but the Domestic Violence Task Force of Kentucky did everything possible to bar him from relocating to their state. They did not want him there under any circumstances.  By this time Tracey is remarried and is living with her new husband and her son C.J. who was just 10 years old by this time. She was on pins and needles upon his release. She felt that she would never have any peace in her life because she would always have to worry about Buck finding them.



In April 1996 Tracey Motuzick went back to court to have a permanent restraining order placed on her ex husband Charles Thurman. It was considered one of the most strict restraining orders that could be placed upon a person. By the time that she had gone back to court she had remarried. She filed the restraining order under her new married name Tracey Thurman Motuzick. The restraining order stipulated that Buck Thurman have no contact with Tracey nor her son Charles jr. He is also not to have contact with people that know them. Thurman is also not allowed to show up at any place where he might run into them. In 1999, Charles Buck Thurman made headlines again because another lady went to court to seek a restraining order against him. Tracey Thurman was told about the incident, and she was not surprised. Charles was 38 years old at the time.

Extra Tidbits

The title of the movie A Cry for Help was indicative of the police's failure to provide help for Tracey and her son Cj. Charles Thurman Jr. Aka Cj also changed his last to Motuzick.

Tracey Thurman went to court and won a 2 million dollars law suit against the police department for failing to protect her despite her numerous calls to the police.

10 comments:

  1. I THINK THAT CHARLES THURMAN SHOULD HAD GOT THE DEATH SENTENCE!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. I defiantly agree!!

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    2. if this was the other way around and Tracy had been the attacker she would likely have gotten life and still be in prison

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  2. Watching this lifetime movie of Tracy Thurman story makes me so upset with the way the police dept handled her being attacked in the streets...just stand there and let her get attacked in front of neighbors. Wow!

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  3. This man is a monster;I dont think he will stop this until he kills someone.Then the authorities will put him away for life.IT WILL BE TOO LATE.

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  4. Smh smh that was terrible if he did to her he'll try to do to his new wife I couldn't marry no guy that did something like that

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  5. Oh my goodness, I am watching the movie now and my tears just won't stop flowing. No amount of money, millions or billions, could ever make right what Buck did to Tracey. My heart is so broken for her! I can only imagine the fear she lived in for so long before the last of the attacks by Buck. She knew, she tried to tell them over and over again, that he was going to kill her. I'm sure there are a lot of things in Tracey that died that day, but he failed to kill her spirit. He did everything to kill her body, even stomping her head and neck AFTER stabbing her 13 times, including slicing her throat and face. What a strong woman! God bless her and her family and may Buck burn in a special part of hell kept just for the real cream of the crop sickoes!!
    Dang LMN, do you but stock in Kleenex?

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  6. This story is truly how most police deal with domestic violence. It is exactly why many women stay with monsters like this or when they try to leave they are stalked. This situation is repeated over and over and alive and well in US today. Just because there is Thurman law means nothing. OJ did his deed long after this case. He wads free until he committed such a lesser crime. Pretty sad that women must live in such conditions with real help. Sure one can call 911, the next day the perpetrator is out and angry as can be.

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  7. She should have left him the first time he hit her.

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  8. I remember waching this moving as a young girl. Just as then as now I still cry. The police don't really care was happening to her. Im so glad that she survived. I myself left a man that beat me infront of my kids, 3 years worth of restraining orders and permanent restraining orders. Men like this are monsters, and are sociopaths. Us survivors of DV only get stronger. It's so sad that they failed to protect her. I pray for her and her son.

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