Anthony Lozano Accused Of Torturing Girlfriend Over Facebook Post

HANFORD, Calif. — Authorities say a California man jealous over a message on his girlfriend's Facebook page tortured and imprisoned her for four days while their children were in the house.

Kings County sheriff's deputies arrested 36-year-old Anthony Lozano at his Hanford home over the weekend on suspicion of false imprisonment, kidnapping, torture and other charges.

Sheriff's Cmdr. Dave Putnam says Lozano accused the 23-year-old victim of having an affair after he saw the Facebook message.

Lozano is suspected of grabbing the woman's hair, dragging her and threatening to kill her before choking her with a rope and a towel.

Putnam said the couple's child and another child belonging to the victim were in the house at the time.

Lozano remained in Kings County custody Monday evening on $725,000 bail. It was unknown if he had an attorney.

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Information from: The Hanford Sentinel, http://www.newzcentral.com

Comments

[Stephen Ryan]

07:29 AM on 09/03/2010

Is there anything Facebook can't do?!

[zeeshan809]

03:31 AM on 09/03/2010

Hitting anyone - male or female is intolerable. Also this story shows how social media is affecting the real lives of people. That is creepy.

www.celebritydialogue.com

[dbmetzger]

09:44 PM on 09/01/2010

The dear john letter of the social networking age.
Cops: Man Tortures Girlfriend Over Facebook Post
A California man is accused of kidnapping and torturing his girlfriend over a Facebook message
http://www.newslook.com/videos/246550-cops-man-tortures-girlfriend-over-facebook-post?autoplay=true

[no exit]

06:20 PM on 09/01/2010

Women who tend to have low self esteem are often flattered by what is often the first telltale sign of an incipient abuser.

"You're all mine" or some version thereof, having to know where you are and who you're with. It gets more intrusive and increasingly physical.

You belong to no one. The instant a man starts acting like you do, get out. He isn't going to change, not ever.

[Aranxa]

09:24 PM on 09/01/2010

Isn't blaming the victim so empowering.

[QueenOfViolets]

04:26 PM on 09/02/2010

The poster is not blaming the victims for the actions of the abusers. She/he is trying to help them identify a future abuser, to help them get out before they're in too deep and it becomes a matter of life and death.

[mccord82]

05:15 PM on 09/01/2010

Can't remember the exact number, but I saw a stat that said something like 35 or 40% of all divorces now now have documented infidelity on facebook. Little off subject and it certainly doesn't excuse this jerk's actions but it is interesting. My Dad taught me never to put hands on a woman in anger, no matter what the circumstance...I've always been grateful that was instilled in me and that I have stuck by it.

[Jeffin90019]

06:11 PM on 09/01/2010

Your dad meant well, I'm sure. But people who hit deserve to be hit back, regardless of gender.My brother married a rage-aholic who hit him any time something didn't go her way. I saw her hit him in front of many family members at many family occassions, and he bravely took her abuse. Finally, our sister grabbed that witch by the hair and told if she ever saw her raise her hands to our brother again, she'd kick her butt. I'm happy to tell you that it actually happened. Brother said something his wife didn't like (He said, "No."). She slapped him across the mouth at dad's 80th birthday brunch. My sister flew across table and smacked the tar out of her -- while I had to hold my brother back from pulling our sister off his precious abuser. We ultimately held a formal intervention with brother. In time he left her. But he had to get a restraining order, which she was arrested for violating.

[MiraMcB]

08:47 PM on 09/01/2010

Violence is not the answer. Violence only begets more violence.

However...



Under these circumstances, good for your sister. If someone did that to one of my brothers, they would have been pulling back a bloody stub.

[kittygogogo]

10:55 AM on 09/03/2010

Wow. You must have had some crazy family gatherings.

[Acert]

07:27 PM on 09/01/2010

I agree with Jeffin, too often the implication of "Don't hit a GIRL" is that it's alright to hit a guy. That's why my parents just told me not to hit ANYBODY no matter how angry I was, unless it was for self-defense/defense of others.

[beingthebest]

02:01 PM on 09/01/2010

I admit to a bias. I grew up in a abusive home.

I see anyone who uses violence against someone else (male or female) as inexcusable.

I have seen how the courts treat women of violence and how the police respond to what they still consider "domestic disturbances." I have watched how useless restraining orders are.

It is what it is.

[UnderTheHedgeWeGo]

10:50 AM on 09/01/2010

Wouldn't you like to know what the Facebook message said?

[beingthebest]

10:53 AM on 09/01/2010

Not really. It has nothing to do with a man beating a women. Men who beat women will find any excuse.

[slappymagoo]

11:39 AM on 09/01/2010

The idea of attacking/abusing/torturing a woman is ridiculous under any circumstances. Even if your wife cheats on you, takes all your money and kills your dog, you still need to keep hands in pockets.

But curiosity of the message itself is more about curiosity over HOW ridiculous the reaction was. In other words, the reaction is not justified in any circumstance, but was there even a reason to react in the first place? Was the message of the "I can't wait to see you, to hold you, to kiss you" variety? Still an inappropriate reaction, nonetheless, and a bona fide crime, even if someone argues that it was "crime of passion" (which it couldn't be, because even if you believe in crimes of passion, after four days, the passion tends to wane).

But what if the message was completely innocuous? A "Hey, it was great running into you in the supermarket, keep in touch" kinda message? I mean, I consider myself Joe Liberal, but twixt those two scenarios, I don't think saying "that kind of attack is even more ridiculous because the message was so innocent" isn't the same thing as saying "the attack was more justified because the message was so incriminating."

[slappymagoo]

11:39 AM on 09/01/2010

Part 2 of 2
Not to get cryptic or creepy, but there are many guys who would never see themselves as "men who beat women" until it happens. They're not all drunk bullies or alpha males who see women as property. And some of them are shocked and appalled by their actions when it happens and strive to understand why they did it. Obviously, a four day torture scene does not fit such a scenario. It's just, having dealt with men AND women who had flashes of violence followed by months/years/lifetimes of remorse, I found your answer a little flippant. Understandable, there are plenty of guys who act like true monsters when it comes to "their" women, or children, pets, strangers. Plenty of women like that, too. Violence is a complex problem. Simplistic comments, and a belief that "they're all the same," make it harder to understand why it happens with some people, and how to prevent it from happening again.

[LiberalBuzz]

03:53 PM on 09/01/2010

I'm curious. Not that it excuses a single thing but I am curious.

[beingthebest]

10:44 AM on 09/01/2010

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Guess what, here in the U.S. it is basically ok too. Try doing some research on what sentences these guys get. 6 months and a slap on the wrist. If that. Women trying to protect themselves are told by police, "sorry, he has to harm you before we can do anything"

He's let out on a low bail. Innocent before proven guilty is great and all, but he'll go out and murder her, and then maybe the kids. We have bail for a reason, but when it is cases about violence against women, women's safety is very rarely of concern.

[Shari Stowell]

02:16 PM on 09/09/2010

Under the sort of extremist-Christian "Biblical" law that some of these dominionist-types want to impose on all of us, it would be okay too. A man's family is his property and his home is his castle ...

[topguide]

10:39 AM on 09/01/2010

The domestic abuse is disturbing. Her life choices are even more disturbing. 1 prior kid with another man, 1 more kids with this abusive guy, and top of that probably seeing a few more on the side. Very disturbing choices she has made.

[beingthebest]

10:49 AM on 09/01/2010

He found someone weak and already in trouble and preyed on her. That's what these types do.

[aristippe]

11:36 AM on 09/01/2010

i detect some bias here

[rstewart3]

05:40 PM on 09/01/2010

It is a two sided issue. Yes, he found someone weak and preyed on her. However, it has been shown that we also tend to stay in situations familiar to us, regardless of the outcome. For instance, I grew up in an abusive home. I made a choice not to let it happen again. However, both of my sisters are currently in abusive relationships, both with children who are growing up in them. The cycle has continued.

The term "Men marry women like their mothers, and women marry men like their fathers" has more truth to it than we would like to give it credit.

Does it justify this man's actions? Not in the least. But it also explains hers as well.

[beingthebest]

10:50 AM on 09/01/2010

And let's not judge her. Maybe she came from a Sharron Angel family where she was raped and was trying to make lemons from lemonade. We don't know her story.

[slappymagoo]

11:44 AM on 09/01/2010

We also don't know HIS story. I mean, if we're going to imagine, maybe he came from a family where mommy cheated on daddy, left him (both of them) and then he killed himself. Now the guy grows up feeling weak, thinks he found the right woman, and an incriminating message let out feelings he didn't know he had. Doesn't mean any violence on his end is justified, but it also isn't the same as a baaad eeeevil man finding a weak woman to exploit and satisfy some need for dominance, either.

Were I a betting man, I'd say you're probably more right then wrong. But even if I were a betting man, I probably wouldn't bet on human misery.

[TEVG]

10:34 AM on 09/01/2010

Welcome to the new age of Technological Barbarism.

[Lexi Suarez]

09:53 AM on 09/01/2010

If it hadn't been a Facebook message, he would have found some other excuse. This monster would have done this regardless. It's a shame that it's only a big deal to the media because he used Facebook as an excuse. Abuse like this happens on a daily basis around the world to all sorts of people, let's focus on that and on finding a way to stop it.

[rstewart3]

05:42 PM on 09/01/2010

Take the human out of humanity, and you have solved the problem.

[CurrencyIsKing]

09:22 AM on 09/01/2010

She should definitely unfriend him.

[PAposter]

10:25 AM on 09/01/2010

I don't want to make light of domestic abuse...but that made me chuckle.

[wackette]

10:33 AM on 09/01/2010

... me, too.

[J0E1]

10:46 AM on 09/01/2010

lol, literally...

[JDLamps]

09:02 AM on 09/01/2010

He's 36 and had a 23 year old girl friend who already had a child and and now a child by him? I am not criticizing her but pointing out how old was she when he first got involved with her.

I guess he could not get a woman near his age. When he was 21 she was still in 3rd grade. He is sick, evil, controlling, cruel, and should be given a good case of incurable E.D.

Let his balls in place, that way he will still get horny but will always be flaccid and not be able to get any.

[rstewart3]

05:51 PM on 09/01/2010

Considering the argument on age, lets see how you take this scenario dealing with me and my wife.

When I joined the Navy, she was in 4th grade. When my first son was born from my first marriage, she was in 8th. When I got divorced from my first wife, she was in the 11th grade. When I met her, she was 21, with a 9 month old child from a previous relationship with a abusive meth head. When we wed, she was still 21, and I was 30. Our child was born when she was 22 and I was 31.

I am now 37 and my wife is 29. We have been married for 7.5 years. What does that make me?

And no, I don't abuse my wife. I am just getting at your age argument.

[Redemption Song]

06:36 AM on 09/01/2010

Well, one thing's certain: we're not "post-femnists".

[Manthan23]

05:40 AM on 09/01/2010

725,000$ bail? Why was there bail at all?

[YLS2007]

07:55 AM on 09/01/2010

Because this is the United States of America, not Iran. You know, that doggone innocent until proven guilty thingy...

[hidenout]

08:34 AM on 09/01/2010

Yes, but burying your head in the sand doesn't do anyone any good.

[dl63]

08:44 AM on 09/01/2010

Huh? We actuall still believe in those values in this country? Since when?

[BabyMed]

07:53 PM on 09/01/2010

It was set that high so he couldn't afford to get out...
I highly doubt he can come up with the down payment on that.