Pair Arrested for Assaulting Mother

Late Tuesday (May 30, 2017) evening, Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office patrol deputies responded to a concerned citizen's report that a woman on Penn’s Chapel Road had been assaulted by her son and his girlfriend.
Deputies responded and determined that the victim had been playing a table game with her son and others when an argument broke out between the mother and the son’s girlfriend. The argument escalated when the girlfriend and the son began to hit the mother. He then grabbed his mother around the neck and threw her to the floor. At that time, another woman who was present pulled the son off of his mother. When this occurred, the son struck that woman in the chest area.
The son then threw a cast iron skillet at his mother, striking her in the head. When the other woman left to call WPSO, the son and his girlfriend fled the residence and went into nearby woods.

Both women went to a local hospital for treatment of their injuries. At the hospital, the mother was diagnosed with severe injuries which required that she be transferred to a hospital in New Orleans for specialty treatment. The other woman was treated and released.
Washington Parish Drug Task Force detectives searched the woods and located and arrested Kurtis L. Strong (38) and Venus Venessa Camacho (38). Strong was charged with Aggravated Battery (2 counts) and Domestic Abuse Battery by Strangulation. Camacho was charged with aggravated battery.
“It is unimaginable to think that a grown man would physically assault his mother,” stated Sheriff Randy Seal. “The biblical command to love one’s mother is not a suggestion. It is a commandment that requires unconditional love for our parents. Thanks, patrol deputies and drug task force detectives, for locating this pair and putting them in jail.”