Woman Forced to Write Letters to Man Who Slashed Her Throat or Face Jail Time

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Written by: Josh Paniagua at theantimedia.org

 

Our story begins in 2008 when Natalie Allman met Jason Hughes. The two dated for two years until 2010 when they got engaged. Soon after their engagement, the couple expected twins. However in February 2011, due to Jason’s excessive drinking problem and controlling tendencies, Natalie called off the engagement and the two separated and continued living together until Jason found another place to live.

Natalie Allman awoke to Hughes smothering her with a pillow on February 3, 2011. He then proceeded to batter her head and face with a dumb bell. After suffering 8 wounds to the head and 5 facial fractures, Hughes grabbed a blade and slashed her throat with it, leaving a nearly 8 inch gash and missing a major artery only by a couple millimeters.

The battering and bleeding all lasted about 7 hours until Natalie was finally allowed to call an ambulance. Authorities arrived to find her lying in bed covered in blood with her two frightened 2-year old sons who had witnessed the whole thing.

Natalie later needed cosmetic surgery to rebuild her throat. Hughes did this all because she told him she was seeing somebody else and he wanted to make her look “ugly”. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison in 2012.

Ms. Allman later recovered and had another child with a new partner in 2013. But just when things were going back to normal and she had her new life on track, Jason Hughes applied for a Residence and Contact Order under the Children Act of 1989, demanding 6 letters and year and phone calls from their twin boys on their birthdays and Christmas.

As one could imagine, Natalie fought the Order. Unfortunately, the court ruled that she send 3 letters a year to keep Hughes updated on the boys. If she fails to write Hughes, she could be held in contempt of the court, resulting in potential prison time or a fine.

Surely one could see the problem with this picture. While it is true that while we’re talking about a brutal assault case, we’re also talking about the relationship between a father and his kids. Still, this particular father bludgeoned their mother, slashed her throat, and left her to bleed for 7 hours in front of his two boys. I’m not an expert in parenting or child psychology, but that kind of influence or presence in a child’s life doesn’t seem to be quite necessary.

“We are the victims, not him,” Allman says, “I thought he was going to kill me that night for no reason and my boys saw that. They were terrified.”

But of course, it’s not just the Order itself that is clearly outrageous, but the consequences she could face in a scenario in which she refuses to write letters to her attempted murderer.

“I could end up being split up from my children and sent to prison when he was the one who attacked me,” Allman states, “I’m the one being treated like a criminal.”

Do you agree? If so, you may be able to help by signing this online petition demanding Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Chris Grayling review the order granted to Hughes.

 

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118 COMMENTS

  1. Criminal or not, this guy is still the father of the boys, and he have the right to keep contact with them. We also do not know what he has been doing inside the jail. Did he quit drinking in there? Did he show remorse for what he did? If the answer to these questions is yes, I think he deserves a second chance.

    • Father or not, he abused the Mother of his children right in front of them! I can only imagine the damage that he’s done to their psyche!!!

    • That’s a disgusting perspective to have. He doesn’t deserve anything. He almost killed their mother in front of them. That’s not “drinking too much” or a lapse in judgment. Those are the actions of an insane person. Who cares if this monster shows remorse? His presence in their life is absolutely toxic. You should feel ashamed for putting this psycho’s “rights” before the well-being of the woman and two children that he traumatized.

      • you should not over monstrify poeple, there are far worse things that are done in warfare, but those things are just ‘serving the country’ right?

        get over it poeple fight, kill and rape eachother, it has always happened and it will always happen.

        • I agree as a matter of fact the soldiers may have fucked up, but the blame should be placed upon the hotshot generals who put the soldiers in this mind frame, but that being said Jason Hughes should be put in a mental institution, not a jail! As this is a mental problem, but that being said she should not have to write him letters or updates either, as he could track his family down and use these letters to finish what he started!

      • He’s a nut!!He can show any emotion he wants and be convincing!! I would write him a letter alright.. It would be full of Anthrax and written in Chinese.

      • Anyone can have a child, Not everyone can be a father. This man should not have a right to be involved with his children at all, they do not need his influence and he may put them at risk. The letters thing is stupid, she should find out how much the fine is and pay it (if she can) for the sake of the children, either that or get a friend or lawyer to write 3 generic non-informative letters using a PO BOX

    • People like you is what’s wrong with the world…”deserves a second chance” for almost killing someone because he may feel bad about it? Fuck that. Blood means nothing. He’s not the father of those children. He’s a lowlife scumbag.

    • Even though he showed no care whilst trying to kill their mother in front of them? This man has psycho tendencies that make him a danger to those around him. His children deserve their own choice when they know all the facts. I know I wouldn’t have anything to do with my Dad if I saw that or knew it happened.

    • Are you insane? Do you need a psych eval yourself?? This guy tried to kill the mother of his children, in cold blood, in front of his children! His children witnessed the whole gruesome act. He forfeited any right to see or be in contact with his children and the woman as far as I am concerned! She and the children should not be subjected to ever have to contact him again! I hope he rots in prison, and never gets out!

    • You are a bleeding heart idiot. Hopefully you do not now have any children, especially daughters who could become victims. When you slash a womans throat in front of your children, you should lose any right to be around or have contact with any child including your own. If you think he deserves a second chance, why don’t you volunteer your home as a sanctuary when he gets released from prison?

    • Why should he be allowed a second chance wether he quit or not, or felt bad. He scarred those children for life, he slit the womans throat in front of them. He lost his right to father those children or contact that woman the second he put them through that trauma.

      • Ya lets just have the previous Jews that was raped tortured and killed during the Holocaust write Adolf Hitler a Christmas letter. What are you a moron? SMH!

    • Your fucked in the head if you think this guy has ANY rights to anything involving her or the kids. That guy should be left in jail to rot and be some guys bitch. We should start a letter writing campaign to him reminding him of what he did to this poor woman by sending him prints of that image above

    • So say u had a jealous ex who shred children with you and she lets say handcuffed you to a bed and nearly murdered you. Becuase you were going to leave you would have no qualms about sending letters and letting this deranged woman into your life again to possibly finish the job or better yet hurt ur children. No fcking way.

    • Does he deserve to have any contact whatsoever with his children or the person he brutally tried to murder in front of them? All the excuses you can name and a million more do not give him ANY right to a relationship with them. He stopped being a parent and spouse the second he acted. No, no, no a million times over!! She should NEVER be required to be in any type of contact just to relive the horror she went through with him. He needs to recognize his remorse and/or shame for his actions never will get his children back.

    • @Klauss, your right. We know nothing about his life and choices and path in prison, he is the father therefore he has rights if he has shown remorse and that he has changed. Refusing the latter without knowing the former is a kneejerk reaction and wrong. The haters here would have been in the front row to condemn a guy of murder in the 60’s, just to get him released more recently for DNA evidence. I’m not saying he isnt guilt of the crime, just commenting on mob mentality without the facts. He will be released one day, and he will have rights as any other ‘free’ father does. He does not release that right years after, just because of the crime, years ago.

      • Without the facts? That woman has major bruises on her eyes and an eight inch cut on her neck along with the twins witnessing it. Sure they were two years old, but that doesn’t mean they will forget it.

      • Der arme physisch ,kranke Alkoholiker mit einem kindheits Trauma ! Geht es noch? So eine Scheisse muss man sich geben!
        Welche psychischen Spätfolgen haben die Kinder und welche Hilfe haben die bekommen?

        Ist es gerechtfertigt, wenn diese Kinder später zu kriminellen werden, weil sie ja so geschädigt sind?

        Also sind alles arme Opfer, die wenn sie ihre straffe abgeleistet haben, dann wieder zur Normalität übergehen können?

        So ein bullshitt !!!

        Nicht der “Vater” sollte bemitleidet werden und Hilfe bekommen ….sondern die Mutter und die Kinder !

        Er will von vorn beginnen…..dann soll er….aber bitte ganz von vorn!

      • As someone who was in an abusive relationship and almost killed, let me be clear when I say he has no rights. None. 9 years wasn’t enough. He needs extensive anger management and counseling. This is just his way of exercising control ov er his ex, and also his way of making her suffer when he gets out and most likely files for visitation and probably evades child support. He slit her throat. That could have and was most likely meant to kill her. The kids were watching that. My 3 year old always talks about how “daddy doesn’t hit you anymore” to me. He is 3. And my 6 year old has even more specific memories of him yelling and cursing and hitting me. I left for a reason. I told him if he got sober and went through counseling he could see the kids supervised. But only after a lot of counseling and at least a month of physical sobriety. I also wanted him to get seen and treated by a psychiatrist bc he had untreated bipolar disorder and wouldn’t take meds. that is fair. But honestly writing this guy letters is just a waste of time and wrong on his part to ask. A changed man would be in counseling, anger management, and would be content to know he was getting better. Then he would wait until he was out, had a job, and could actually be a father to the kids instead of a distant presence they remember only as the person who so horribly hurt their mother. He would file for visits but be ok with supervised and be fine with proving both sobriety and mental stability. Or he would just stay away bc a father, honestly, is who raises the kids. Not the sperm donors. He made a choice to be in prison when he chose to try to kill his ex. That choice took him out of their lives so why not stay out?

      • Dumbass mod mentally usually requires a lack of logical rational. That would apply to you and the douchebag that started this post. Your an idiot btw… just in case dumbass didn’t get the point across.

    • Your logic is flawed. If he did have remorse he wouldn’t be using the legal system to force himself on her. This is just another way for him to dominate and show control over her. He is not a decent person who just made a mistake. He is an extreme abuser. A self centered jizz stain.

    • Once an abuser ALWAYS an abuser. Shove the second chances. Have you ever lived with one Mr. Klauss. I had for 25 years and took my kids hostage. This only showed that is ok to beat on a woman. Are you a narcissistic sociopath cause you sure sound like it.
      And who the heck was the judge? Can you say idiot.

    • Your an idiot.And should have a father who beats you and your mother up then we will se how you think about this pice of shit who should root in hell/jail for ever.

    • Ha! The guy doesn’t give a shit about his kids. If he did he would’ve at least made sure they didn’t watch as he tried to butcher their mother. He just wants to control her again.

    • I agree with you, however, mom should ask the judge for him to go to a program for violence and parenting classes in the mid time due that he did he still is the father of the child. Domestic violence is a disease, there are treatments for that. She need to go to treatment too in the best interest of the twins. Having compassion for a sick person does not mean you agree with what they have done.

      • Another Idiot. She’s not obligated to have compassion for someone who slit her throat and left her to bleed out in front on her children

    • Father or not he nearly beat her to death and cut her throat and all because he had too much to drink and a little jealousy problem. Nonetheless he did it in front of the kids who are permanently scarred, and you expect her to write letters and call him. Hell no. I would take that case to the Supreme Court.

    • False. He forfeited his rights. If a woman slit your throat would you sit there and honestly tell me ‘Oh she deserves a second shot…’

      One thing to stick your junk in a meat grinder, it’s a whole other thing to do it again just to make sure…

    • Did you not read where he did all that to her while the 2 babies witnessed it all and left her for ! Wtf is wrong with you he shouldn’t have any rights to those babies who he traumatized!

    • Your view point is very flawed! He tried to kill this woman in front of their children! Did you not read what he did to her? He beat her with a weight and slashed her throat IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN! Those children and that woman do not need to stay in contact with a satanic animal like him. Only an idiot would say that forcing these 3 people to contact this “man” is the right thing to do… I really question you and your morality. He is dangerous!

    • So glad you aren’t my father… And pen pal. He can go second chance it on his own. He gave that up somewhere in those 7 hours of torture…

    • you gotta be crazzzy people like that dont change over being in prison it teaches them how to do it but be smarter about it…. there should be a no contact order perioudp

    • That man deserves nothing and doesnt deserve to ever know what his kids are doing. He should be removed from their lives. The dude is a sociopath and psychotic.

    • Thomas Klauss your fucking stupid you need to have your throat slashed and beatin and wright letters to your babies mother and then when she gets out of jail for the “second chance” shes going to kill you

    • Well, I can only guess you’ve gone around slashing throats and beating women. Otherwise, I see no reason why someone would see this as OK. Eye for an Eye in my mind with every crime.

    • whether or not what the courts think if the kids want to talk to him it is there dision to make not the courts with me i was alowed the choice wherther or not to go and see my dad and now i live with him so give it up to the kids on what to do thats the right thing to do

    • That is no differnt then what happented to my sister’s, brother’s, and I growing. The only real differnt’s is who did it, for us it was the police and welfare system. The a few year’s ago my little sister went to jail for protecting her daught who was only two and was kicked in the stomeck. Or only two weekes ago when my baby sister was betten up by her two year old boy’s father’s family and draged off by police. She got road rash on her but and herwhen she was attack, ahe had her son in her arm’s. The law seem’s to be in favor for those that do crimes and not those who are the victum’s!

    • You are an idiot!!! Did he quit drinking in there??? Of course he did dumbass…he’s in jail. They don’t have a corner bar at the end of the cell block. Let him slit your wife’s throat and see if you think he deserves a second chance. A-hole!!

    • your opinions are irrelevant she shouldn’t be forced to acknowledge his existance in saying that he should still be updated if he claims to want to know whats going on a 3rd person can just as easily ring her residence or go to her house ask questions about what the kids have been up to and the 3rd party right the letter no details like location should ever be reveled those kids will be scared for life murderous and attempted murderous should be strung up

    • Yes, he is the father. He is also the person they watched almost brutally murder their mother…at the age of 2. They were well old enough to remember these images and will probably be fucked up mentally for years, if not the rest of their lives. Can you imagine being forced to ever see the person that committed those actions again? It doesn’t matter if he’s reformed, if he’s a perfect saint or the fucking pope, the effect he has had, and will have on those kids still remains, and a loophole forcing her to update him and forcing the children to speak to him is more insane than the actions committed in the first place. The judge is a mental idiot.

    • Top notch trolling right there sir, 100+ comment flame war.
      At least i hope you are trolling, I really hope there arent any people that really think like that

    • I am still waiting on an apology and so are my boys as for giving up alcohol I dont think he can find time to drink whilst playin on Xbox and keeping bees how would any of that justify what he did and allow him contact with my boys who I have looked after, provided for and he’s done nothing but abandon them

    • It does not matter if he showed remorse or not. He brutally beat a woman and tried to kill her. Any man who can call himself one should never have done something so cruel to this earths only true saviors. He deserves to be shot and killed on the spot. Especially when there are children involved… He should not be in prison, he should be in a box of shit rotting at the bottom!

    • Sooooo, are you saying abuse and attempted murder are fine? Just as long as they feel bad? You need mental help… That “man” deserves to spend the rest of his life in that cell, and never have contact with his ex or children again. Neither her or those kids deserve to go through that type of hell. Think about it, you hear YOUR parents arguing and you walk in to YOUR mother being suffocated by YOUR “father”, beaten with weights, and then having her throat slashed, and having to wait 7 HOURS before she could get help. And then she’s having to write your “father” (if he could even be called that) to tell him how you are doing. Would you want him to know where you live? And if you say yes, I invite you to pick him up from that jail house and take him to your home and tell him that you are that mother’s new boyfriend. Let’s see if you survive the night.

    • This is the exact mindset we need to change. Just because he’s the biological father, that doesn’t mean anything. Being a father is earned not given.

      If we keep sharing the terrible message of “They are the mother/father” so let’s look past the fact they are a terrible person, kids will be hurt all over the world.

      My biological mother lost the title of my mom after the drunken physical abuse to me as a child. My foster mother however, after spending ten years in that family have earned the title of my parents, as they see me as one of their own children.

      Stop spreading your terrible message.

  2. Do not agree. Any man will love his children, regardless of whateevr happened between him and the mother.

    The court was actually on her side by reducing it too only 3 lettters.

    It is only 3 letters. Eventually the children will be old enough to decide whether too send them themselves.

    I do not agree with her getting jail time if she does not comply thought.

    • Anon, I’m guessing you are young and inexperienced, that’s ok. I’m guessing you have never been in an abusive relationship either. Odds are he cares nothing for those children and just wants to torture the mother further, because that’s what an abusive person does.

  3. This is outrageous. Please reconsider this order and do not force this victim to write letters to a man who tried to kill her.
    He should have thiught of the relationshio with the boys before
    He committed this heinous act!

  4. Well, I can see the point.
    He’s not being a part in the kids lives, he’s merely being updated on they’re progression throughout life.
    That being said, the court could provide a case worker to do that instead of the mother.

  5. Fuck you Thomas Klauss! Repent or not, this piece of human trash deserves nothing. his kids watched as he brutally assaulted his partner,can you imagine the mental scarring they endured. All he is doing is continuing his assault on her and the boys. He deserves to be anally raped to death for what he did.. I hope someone shivves him, and you for supporting his continued abuse.

  6. He tried to kill her. I do get what your saying. But attempted murder in front of the children. There is no way is want my ex in my children’s life of he was to do that to me in front of them. Who knows how far he would have went had she passed. He never would have saw them again if she did.

  7. bullshit, just like the time a teen boy was drugged and raped by a older women. she got knocked up and now the teen is paying for child support! this so called law system is full of shit that needs to be cleaned out!

  8. This is bull spit. My 3 letters a year would be one sentence long. This is cruel.I don’t care if he is reformed. He does NOT deserve a second chance. I hope he gets the same treatment in prison as he gave her. Those children should be protected from him.

    Stupid law.

  9. Dead beat loser fathers who attempt to kill the mother of there children don’t deserve second chances he’s deserves to have that all happen to him and then some

  10. thomas man that can do thing like this don’t deserve any thing at all and in front of his boys that he so wants to hear from now no way only thing he deserves is a good beating

  11. Second chance maybe, only on behalf of his children correct. For a victim to be the one to engage this interaction negative. Just wrong! If it is state mandatory for the communication between the children and father. Then like state lead supervised visits, the state should be the ones meditating that whole situation. Not the victim. I personally think the victim should be rewarded pain and suffering, on behalf of the state. Just for forcing her to relieve the horror 3 times a year.

  12. He should get a second chance… Really? So when his kids, knowing what he did to their mother, reject him for his heinous acts, he can try and kill them too? Look what he did to their mother when she rejected him, judging by his actions he doesn’t handle that well (no matter what the cause). Should the kids be subjected and exposed to a man that delivered that kind of brutality? That sentence isn’t long enough. Tons of parents split and handle things MUCH more constructively than what this guy did. I don’t know what kind of world some people live in where bludgeoning someone, slashing their throat and leaving them to die becomes a matter of forgiveness. There is no forgiving those kinds of actions even if “it’s for the kids”. Get real.

  13. Fuck him, he lost his rights the moment he lost his fucking mind by attempted murder. How will these boys benefit by being in contact with him? He’ll eventually kill them too if given another chance to kill her. Obviously they’ve survived 6yrs without him, why reward the maniac?

  14. Her letters should consist of updates on her neck scar and all the surgeries, how many times the boys wake up screaming from the trauma he caused, letting him know that none of them want any thing to do with him, and how much they wish he had all ready hung himself. And how wonderful life is on the outside, good food, great Christmas parties, birthdays he will miss forever….Rot in prison you scum bag

  15. What the hell is wrong with the judicial system. The worst thing to do is allow this man ANY access to these children. It’s teaching them that it’s ok to beat on women. Once an abuser ALWAYS an abuser…I lived with one for 25 years ( second chances…crap)and unfortunately exposed my boys to this, now I get NO RESPECT from them and have cutoff all communication to protect myself.
    Who the hell is the moron who presided over this case? Can you say idiot?
    And as for Mr. Klassen what are you a narcissistic, sociopath? You don’t have a clue what your talking about so do not post stupid comments.

  16. I can’t believe the courts would make her do this. At the very least, a social worker should be the one to give him updates if he so desperately wants them but I don’t think that’s actually what he cares about. He’s simply trying to control and manipulate her still.
    I wonder, if she got a restraining order (or something similar that prohibits contact between them) could that be used as a legal reason for no contact? Failing that, just send updates in a calendar form, with dates, times and events all written in a table form. It keeps him in the loop while keeping things impersonal. Poor woman. And poor kid having to witness it.

  17. I’m a hard boiled revolutionary Marxist so I know all the social explanations for crime stick but this guy – well he needs drying out and a savage work regime to sort his sorry arse out. Plus I’ll write the letters to him if she likes, she can use the following as letters to send to him,
    1. ‘Dear’ Jason, Hope you remember what you did to me. I hope you’re feeling bad you sorry waste of skin. Trying to forget you, Natalie
    2. ‘Dear’ Jason, Despite your input kids are great. Hope prison is lots of fun. Natalie
    3. ‘Dear’ Jason, You are a pathetic wanker.

  18. Is this story true? I haven’t checked to see if it is yet, but the writer either has the dates wrong as how could the kids be two years old in 2011 when she was only expecting them in 2010? If the story is true and the dates are mixed up it’s certainly a terrible thing that happened. Just questioning the correctness though.

  19. Not over monstrify people? The guy who slashed her throat and hit her in the face with a solid metal object isn’t a monster? If he were truly penatent, he should know that he doesn’t deserve any contact with his children.

  20. It’s not like he slapped her across the face in a fit of rage for a split second… he tortured her for seven hours in front of their two year old twin boys. That takes a special kind of sicko. I suspect that he’s a sociopath like my ex husband. He doesn’t care about anyone or love anyone except himself, he only wants to control her. In his eyes… she’s his property. And that judge… Just goes to show you that there are idiots in every field, she needs to appeal and take this to the higher courts so she’s not subjected to this shit.

  21. I would have the boys write letters saying look what you did to our mom, with the picture of her face and neck enclosed in the envelope, I would have them write 1 letter a each week. they should know their dad as the monster he is. hope he rots in jail. i would do one better and send those pictures to all of his cell mates. most people in prison don’t care for women beaters, rapists, pedo’s, he would get what he deserves daily.

  22. Jason Hughes does not deserve to see his children. Not after what he did to that woman. He doesn’t deserve not even a word from her.

    • I could not not agree more, the safety of those poor children who had to witness this should definitely be put first and that woman should not have to write letters either, I mean how fucked up is the law these days right? He could probably use these letters and updates to track the poor bastastards!

  23. I find it rather tormenting that any court would force her to communicate with the man that slit her throat. if he wants a report on the kids then maybe they should ask that a professional see them (once a month etc) and write the updates for him … not the mother who is the victim here

  24. I cannot believe that the judges can make such stupid and irrational decisions! Judges need to understand the situation before making a decision.

  25. I’m sure I would be delighted to write him several times a year. To remind him what a dead dog he is, how stupid he is, how much his kids hate him, and then. . Ya write him again,tell him how he died to his own family. I don’t see the issue here. . the demand is she write, and tell him how they are doing now that they survived his terrorism. .and he’s never coming back !

  26. The way I see it, Jason Hughes was forced to do all sorts of fucked up evil shit to ” serve his country” or more like some pissed off hotshot general, I am not saying that his actions were right but this is a very good example of why people serving in the military should not have kids, I would know I grew up in a military family, personally I reckon this person should be in a mental health clinic as opposed to a jail where his mental health problems will only get worse when he gets out, he is probably thinking of finishing the job when he gets out!

  27. Remember the good old days when we beheading people for doing shit like this and put their heads on a pike? This guy deserves that. No matter how you look at it he tried to kill her, attempted murder.

  28. If you’re unhappy with the outcome, sign the petition as I have done. Noone should be allowed to see their kids after an event like this (although I don’t think the law should have a say either but since the court has already made a decision I felt I needed to sign the petition to protect the mother and her children).

  29. Just because he wasn’t successuful in killing her doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have. He has caused harm to both his ex and their children. If someone kills or tries to kill someone in a murderus fashion, they should give up all rights of freedom and contact. Killers are not different people when they get out just because they have been to prison and attened courses. The woman and her children should have every right not to be in-touch with this man. The legal systems are wrong in favor of the criminals. People who take away other peoples human-rights have no right to expect that they should be allowed theirs.

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