Fight over goodnight kiss lands 59-year-old man in jail

Police have arrested a Florida man they say pushed his girlfriend and cut her with glass after she declined to kiss him goodnight.
Records show 59-year-old Rudolph Battaglia was in the Palm Beach County Jail following his arrest on charges of battery and aggravated battery.
The Palm Beach Post reports the couple argued after he asked his 54-year-old girlfriend for a goodnight kiss, and she said she’d already kissed him.
The arrest report says Battaglia shoved her onto the bed, broke a crystal decoration and held up a piece of glass while threatening her. Deputies say the woman was cut on her left thumb when he slammed the glass on a table.
Jail records don’t list a lawyer for Battaglia.
Girl escapes death over poor Bible verse recitation
A 12-year-old girl from Pennsylvania, United States (U.S.) narrowly escaped death for incorrectly reciting Bible verses, an assignment given to her by her mother.
Reports say Rhonda Shoffner, the mother of the girl, beat and tried to strangle her for incorrectly reciting Bible verses. She was later sentenced to prison.
Forty-one-year-old Shoffner was sentenced Wednesday to 2½ to five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges including aggravated assault of her daughter, who was younger than 13.
Police say the girl was forced to kneel on the bathroom floor at Shoffner’s Middletown home and repeat Bible verses.
They say Shoffner slammed her head into the wall each time she made a mistake. They say Shoffner also told the child she was going to kill her and attempted to strangle her.
Police say the girl fought off Shoffner, who told her to leave and never return. The girl called her father, who drove her to a police station.