Report: TLC Bribed Jeremiah Raber’s Ex-Wife Naomi Stutzman $10,000 To Keep Quiet?
October 12, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Earlier today, news outlet CBS 21 confirmed reports about Breaking Amish’s Jeremiah Raber being arrested for domestic violence against his ex-wife Naomi Stutzman.
It wasn’t really news, as it had already been established that Raber regularly beat his then-wife and that was partly the grounds on which she filed for divorce in 2011 and sought sole custody of the minor children with whom she was pregnant on the occasions he would push her down and strike her in the stomach (knowingly, threatening to harm the unborn baby, according to police reports).
CBS 21 confirmed the speculation, today, in statements from Stutzman, local police, and police reports the station obtained on its own.
The records, read out in the report, confirm Raber’s 2005 arrest for domestic violence and the attacks in Stutzman’s own words. And there’s more, burying the lede a little, CBS 21 also says Stutzman spoke to them over the phone then stopped taking their calls, after which they were left to complete their investigation alone.
According to Stutzman, she was bribed by TLC to keep quiet. A portion of CBS 21′s write-up says: “In a phone conversation right before Stutzman says TLC offered her $10,000 to stay quiet, she told CBS 21…” before offering quotes given right before she went radio silent.
TLC denies offering Stutzman money to stay quiet but, somehow, has no comment about Raber’s easy-to-find-out-about arrests.
Previously, in last month’s reporting from the same outlet, CBS 21 alleged: “When TLC found out CBS 21 was trying to set up an on-camera interview with her, she said TLC offered her ‘whatever she wanted’ to stay quiet. Now she won’t return calls or emails.” To which TLC responded at the time: “This accusation is absurd. TLC has never and will never offer or provide any payment for something like this.”