College Freshman Accused Of Beating Her Roommate With Hot Iron

[matcom]

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- A college freshman was charged with assault after authorities say she beat her new roommate with a hot clothes iron, hitting her so hard she fractured the young woman's skull and broke the iron into pieces.

The 18-year-old victim told authorities Sharronda Barkley, also 18, attacked her on their second day of classes after accusing her of putting a hidden camera in their room.

Heather Haase suffered a skull fracture, bruises, cuts and a burn on her arm in the Tuesday morning attack, university police said.

Barkley told officers Haase injured herself when she fell out of bed and hit the iron, according to a police report. Barkley was being held on $25,000 bond Thursday. A judge ordered her not to return to Bowling Green State University or have contact with Haase.

Freshmen arrived last week at the university, 20 miles south of Toledo. Haase and Barkley are both from small towns in Ohio.

"You have two young ladies that go off to college with an expectation of obtaining an education and hopefully having a good time, and they're not here a week and one of them is severely injured and the other ends up in jail," University Police Chief James Wiegand said. "That's not the way it's supposed to go."

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[Cathyclysmic]

1. Damn! they will let anyone in that school!

(go Falcons)

[Connie_Corleone]

2. I learned my lesson after my freshman year.

I never had a roommate again. The first roommate was stealing money from me. And the second one had a boyfriend who used to stalk her (O.J. Simpson style) and look thru our window (we were on the first floor). He also punched a hole in our door that we both had to pay for. That was it for me.

[eyepaddle]

6. I had something like 27 or 28 rdifferent roommates in college

some were pretty lame, but by and large I met some great people. I never shared an apartment with just ONE other person except for a friend I had known for a few years. That way if one roommate is an asshole the rest of you can keep them in line.

Oh yeah, the school I went to didn't have enough dorm space for all freshman, and what they had they reserved overwhelmingly for female students, so I never actually shared a dorm room, at least not in college.

I don't know if anyb ody stole money from me, but I got hosed repeatedly by failure to pay bills and stuff like that. One girl sold a bunch of my CDs once though. All a part of the fun! :D

For the record there was never a physical assault like the one described in the article though!

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Understatement of the year:

"That's not the way it's supposed to go."

[HEyHEY]

4. "I read the handbook and it doesn't mention iron beatings!"

I can see it now...

[underpants]

5. Ah the old "kill your roomate and get 'A's and the semester off" trick

Usually they make it look like a suicide.

"Honest officer I found her like that. She must have beaten herself to death with that iron"

[kick-ass-bob]

7. I thought about that my first year.

:hide:

:P

[displacedtexan]

8. Me, too.

It would take days to describe my roommate, "Hurricane Nancy."

[Tari]

9. They were just ironing-out their differences. eom