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Romanian in Galway pleads guilty to horrific attack - Told partner he would stop beating her if he could gouge out her eye

Boyfriend admitted guilt having said initially the injuries were self-inflicted

CATHY HAYES,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Saturday, November 10, 2012, 10:52 AM

Updated Saturday, November 10, 2012, 10:52 AM

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Gheorge Pasare (28) told his partner he would stop beating her with a belt if she let him gouge her eye out with a bread knife.

A Romanian man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for a “sadistic” attack on his 30-year-old Irish girlfriend, in Galway. Gheorge Pasare (28) told his partner he would stop beating her with a belt if she let him gouge her eye out with a bread knife, the court heard.

Pasare pleaded guilty to the attacks on the woman at her home in Tirellan Heights, Headford Road, Galway on August 6, November 20, and December 7 of last year. She suffered a fractured nose, wrist and eye socket.

The court heard that Pasare and his girlfriend had been out on December 6 when a comment about his girlfriend from a bouncer threw him into a jealous rage.

When they got home he beat her with a belt, around the face and head, punched her, dragged her into the bedroom and sat on her while attempting to choke her. He ripped off her clothes.

Then allowed her to put on a cardigan and go into the kitchen. He then smashed her head off a work surface.

She grabbed a knife and attempted to defend herself but he grabbed it broke it and threw it in the thrash.

A policeman giving evidence said “He then took a bread knife from a drawer and placed it at her right eye and said the assault would stop if she allowed him to take her eye out.”

She used her hand to get the knife away from her eye. In doing so she cut her hand badly. Pasare then realized she was in pain and went into the bedroom.

After having her wrist broken, she escaped to her neighbors home who brought her to the emergency room.

Pasare was arrested on December 13 and at first said the injuries were self inflicted but later admitted his guilt.

Women's Aid director Margaret Martin, told the Irish Independent they don't comment on individual cases, but added "Many women who are attacked by their partners are told that no one will believe them and that they are to blame for the abuse. They live in fear of further violence if they try to end the relationship."

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sully1167 | Nov 12, 2012, 08:10 AM EST

He was obviously too much of a coward to confront the bouncer, who commented about his girlfriend.

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sully1167 | Nov 12, 2012, 08:05 AM EST

Wounded Knee, don't listen to Tundish. He or she is either a foreigner, or a Multicultural Marxist. Yes, even if he was Irish he would still be a lowlife. He is a foreigner in Ireland that shouldn't be there, if he was an Irishman and did that to a Romanian woman in Romania; he would have probably had his throat cut.

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IrelandNorth | Nov 12, 2012, 05:59 AM EST

The difficuty is that this guy is considered a macronational citizen of the European Union (EU) which, since the Lisbon (EuroFed) referendum was force-fed to an economically terrorised Irish electorate, allows EU nationals from anywhere within its exponentially expanding boundaries to settle anywhere therein. "Ireland long a province [of the United Kingdom/British Empire] be - a nation once again(!) has now become: Ireland almost a nation once before - a European county has become(!)

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WoundedKnee | Nov 12, 2012, 02:02 AM EST

Tundish: The Irish Independent newspaper a few months back cited a figure of one inmate in three in Irish jails being a foreign migrant. I guess you think it's great that so many foreign criminals have moved in on Ireland. It's so multicultural, even the jails are multicultural! But the Irish want foreign criminals out of there.

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warlocks | Nov 12, 2012, 12:26 AM EST

This SOB should be locked up for at least 20 years. Any man who beats a women like that is a coward.& not a real Man.If he did that to any women in my family he would be sleeping with the Fishes

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tundish45 | Nov 11, 2012, 06:52 PM EST

@ Seanmor posting at 2:52PM It is fine to make a point arguing from specific to general, but you have to provide more than a single instance when refuting a pattern. But I do take the point that deportation should be part of the sentence on any foreign national convicted of some level of crime. In the US, the current administration has deported more than any previous four year period.

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tundish45 | Nov 11, 2012, 06:44 PM EST

@WoundedKenee posting at 2:45 PM. Except for some Rift Valley Africans, we are all immigrants from someplace. It is just that Irish papers seem to go crazy about pointing fingers at East Europeans. Like how in the US a hundred years ago the papers pointed out Irish origins. Although the person's origins had nothing to do with the crime. It smacks of an agenda driving story selection.

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Seanmor | Nov 11, 2012, 02:52 PM EST

tundish: I certainly am NOT a W.S.S.P., though I was born in London, G.B.s capital. I am full-blodded Irish and very proud of it. During my 4 years in the Marine Corps (as an Irish citizen), I was always very well treated by every W.A.S.P. marine, from the privates to the colonels. My wife is a Methodist and had ancestors on both sides who fought their British cousins in the Revolutionary War, but she never felt the least bit superior to any Irish people in the North or South of my homeland. She too would like to see Ireland free of foreigners who commit outrageous crimes.

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cillowen | Nov 11, 2012, 02:51 PM EST

love the stranger was always how it went down in ould ireland - so many times it happens that it reveals a dangerous defect in the species.

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WoundedKnee | Nov 11, 2012, 02:45 PM EST

tundish: "What has (sic) his Romanian origins to do with the crime?" They have everything to do with his crime. Ireland has an Open Door policy of permitting unchecked and unchallenged settlement by foreign migrants. Unlike immigration to the US, no background checks are made on foreign settlers in Ireland. It is axiomatic that all crimes committed by foreign settlers in Ireland would not have been committed were those foreign settlers not in Ireland. Before you make the stupid intervention of pointing to crime by Irish people, the fact that Irish people commit crimes is no argument for importing more criminals and thugs from abroad. You sound like you're a real xenophobic nut, Tundish, you want the Irish to be preyed on by foreign criminals.

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WoundedKnee | Nov 11, 2012, 02:37 PM EST

Porta: "blaming the victim". Are you literate, Portia? Can you read? If so, where in my post did I blame this woman? You're nuts.

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bunkerisland | Nov 11, 2012, 12:08 PM EST

Send this man back to Romania after he comes out of prison!

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Irishrose100 | Nov 11, 2012, 11:15 AM EST

I don't care what nationality the b----rd is he deserves the same in return only let's finish the deed he was wanting to do to her and in the same manner. 2 1/2 years is a joke especially if they're let off early as in the US.

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tundish45 | Nov 11, 2012, 10:55 AM EST

What has his Romanian origins to do with the crime? There has never been domestic abuse among two native born? I read the Irish Times and the Independent on line every day and have noticed Irish newspaper police blotter stories seem obsessed with mentioning the foreign origins whenever possible. One recent Irish Times article even said the bad boy, although born in Ireland, was the son of two immigrant Slavs. Just as Americans seem obsessed with mentioning the race/national origin of anyone not WASP. Deliberate? Or just unconscious xenophobia?

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Portia777 | Nov 11, 2012, 09:33 AM EST

A Romanian man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for a “sadistic” attack on his 30-year-old Irish girlfriend, in Galway.2 and half years and out in 1 no doubt. What a great message the judge has sent out to other domestic terrorists.Ah yes, sure the judges are trained to see all females before the court as feeble minded......she should have known? we hear it all the time. Somehow female victims are supposed to know which males are domestic terrorists before forming a relationship. Clearly the judges etc lack training in charmers, psychopaths, Stockholm Syndrome etc. They all understand it though when it applies to war veterans and kidnapping cases.

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