A review of the records by WFDL news shows a Campbellsport man charged in connection with a domestic abuse stabbing incident last month has a history of domestic violence. James Allen is charged with attempted first degree intentional homicide and aggravated battery. He is accused of stabbing his fiancée in the neck with a pocket knife as she was driving at highway speed on a county highway south of Campbellsport. In February Allen was placed on probation for a year with an imposed and stayed 90 day jail sentence after pleading no contest to disorderly conduct. A charge of domestic violence as a repeater was dismissed and read into the record. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says the case is disturbing and a reminder for domestic abuse victims that there are organizations that can help if you are in a violent relationship. Tiffany Parker is the director of the Domestic Violence Program at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. “These stories are very hard to hear overall. Obviously anyone that’s being put in a situation where they feel unsafe with someone that they love is very hard to hear that and very sobering to hear that,” Parker told WFDL news. The latest figures from the state show there were nearly 30,000 reported domestic violence incidents in Wisconsin in 2017, up by nearly a thousand from the year before. Parker says while the number of reported domestic abuse cases is alarming, there are many more cases that go unreported for a variety of reasons. “We know that domestic violence happens to one in three women and one in seven men. So we know if we look at those statistics compared to our population we’re missing a lot.”
