Comments on: Christian Bale Assault

By: Cradle Man

Cradle Man — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:22:56 +0000

His sis and mum was trying to shake down this guy! He wouldn’t give in to their demands, and they became vincdictive by accusing him of assauting them! I don’t believe their claims! they tarnished his evening, being typical women! (Just my opinion) Much luck to you Mr. Bale!

By: Jeffrey Nichols, Esq

Jeffrey Nichols, Esq — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:40:25 +0000

The word assault is often misunderstood, and in Batman’s case, the confusion seems widespread on both the Internet and the street. Recent allegations that “Dark Knight” star Christian Bale assaulted his mother and sister have been translated by far too many people into “Did you hear he beat up his mother and sister?”

Roughly speaking, assault generally means putting someone in reasonable fear that harmful or offensive contact with them is imminent. For example, in a heated argument, anything from harsh words to a raised fist could lead the recipient to believe that an offensive contact was about to follow, and that they are therefore being assaulted. In fact, no contact need occur at all: an assault charge can stand on its own in most jursidictions.

Whatever happened between Mr. Bale and his family, the public must remember two things. First, an allegation, until proven, is only an allegation. Second, the word assault is not synonymous with the words “beat up.”

By: patrick

patrick — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:51:16 +0000

Bale seems too in-control of himself and too smart to ever physically go after anyone

By: MB

MB — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:50:26 +0000

Not enough info has been released….assault can be as innocent as touching someone’s clothes or as bad as hitting and beating someone up. Obviously his sister and mum didn’t go to a hospital and they went straight to the police. Plus, if it wasn’t that severe why try to ruin your son’s and/or brother’s career just before his big premier. It could’ve been resolved among the family. The news is going to blow it up as if he beat the hell out of his family, but I think with the fact his mum and sis didn’t go to the hospital first shows that they weren’t injured. Also the fact they went straight to the police to file a Formal complaint, which is no big deal, shows that it wasn’t as severe as the news makes it out to be, and they didn’t arrest Bale immediately but only want to question him to hear his account. This tells me the mum and sis had no physical injuries for the police to convict him with.

And you never know with his mum and sis, he’s so successful (especially now) that they might want a piece of the pie. Money and success changes people and family is no exception so it’s easy to see mum and sis as a victim, but to play devil’s advocate I can also see that his mum and sis might be trying to get some press or money out of Bale due to his success with the Batman franchise…

So we’ll see as more unfolds….