Judge Found Iowa Police Slaying Suspect Exploited, Hit Mother
Greene, an unemployed father who lived in the Des Moines suburb of Urbandale, was behaving erratically and was increasingly desperate for money in recent weeks, court records show.
District Judge Carla Schemmel ruled Tuesday that Greene had committed elder abuse against his 66-year-old mother, Patricia Greene, by ‘‘physically hitting and financially exploiting’’ her. She ordered him to move out of his mother’s home, where he had been living in a basement bedroom, before Nov. 6 and to stay away from the home for a year.
Patricia Greene had applied for the restraining order Oct. 19, two days after she was arrested and charged with striking her son in the face during an altercation that he recorded with his cellphone. She wrote in the application that she believed her son ‘‘set me up to get me in trouble.’’ Patricia Greene wrote that while she was in jail, Scott Greene told one of her friends that Patricia Greene needed to give him $20,000 and that if his mother paid, ‘‘he would move and not bother’’ her again.
Patricia Greene also wrote that her son had sent an acquaintance ‘‘a bunch of rambling, offensive’’ text messages, warned that he would no longer take care of her cat and was going through her personal belongings. She said her son had subjected her to mental, emotional and financial abuse.
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