Brooklyn woman testifies: He beat me, but I still loved him

Update: 6/11/09 8:06 p.m.

Today in the courtroom, thirty-four year old Jason Page’s 10-year-old daughter testified against her father, which turned the courtroom into total chaos.

As the child, Nadia, walked into the packed courtroom she started weeping as she took the stand.

Prosecutor Ed Purce asked her “What if anything did your dad do to Denetria?” The girl grew quiet then started crying.

Page exploded in the courtroom shouting, “Yo, man, don’t put my fucking daughter through this bullshit, man.  What the fuck is with you, man? If you all gonna convict me, fucking convict me, man …don’t put my daughter through that, man.”

The judge quickly asked the court officers to escort the jury out of the courtroom and Nadia quietly asked the judge if she could leave, but not before Page told her, “I love you, I love you baby.  Don’t cry, baby, I am all right.  I love you.”  Then he turned to the prosecutor and say, “I am guilt. Give me a thousand years…give me a thousand years.  Just let me go to the back, man.”

Justice Danny Chun issued a stern rebuke to Page saying, “If you should do that again, the trial will proceed without you being here.”

A calmer Page pleaded with the judge not to bring his daughter into the courtroom again.

Justice Chun told Page to plead guilty and save his daughter from testifying, offering him a sentence between 15 years to life and 25 to life.

Page decided to continue with the trial and after a few minutes, his daughter came back into the courtroom and testified that she saw her dad beating Denetria Council with an extension cord.

She said Council had “scars on her arms, her legs and her back.”

Nadia said her father asked her to get rid of the extension cord by throwing it in the garbage.

From the Daily News

A Brooklyn woman told a rapt jury on Wednesday how she loved her abusive boyfriend and couldn’t leave him – even after he held her captive for 17 days, mercilessly whipped her with an extension cord and duct-taped her hands to a crib.

Denetria Council, 23, kept jurors spellbound with her tale of love and hate, occasionally wiping tears and stealing peaks at the former lover who beat her with the extension cord.

“He would wrap it around his hand three times and then he would just sling it at my back,” Council calmly told jurors. “He sat on my back and he burned me with a cigarette lighter.”

The pretty home health aide told about “scars on my back and all over my body, my legs, my arms” and how she would sleep on soft T-shirts in his Bushwick apartment because her open wounds would painfully stick to bed sheets.

Jason Page, 34, the hulking, 6-foot-4 former beau is facing a life sentence for kidnapping Council for 17 days last July.

Jurors got a taste of their relationship as prosecutor Ed Purce played taped calls between Council and Page at Rikers Island as he sweet-talked her into helping him.

“I love you, beautiful, I miss you, ma,” Page purrs on one. “You could help me get rid of this.”

“I did what I was supposed to do,” Council answers back sharply.

“So you called the DA?” he said.

But before the pain there was pleasure, Council testified, telling jurors how Page treated her well when they first dated in 2006.

“It was nice, he always made me laugh,” said Council. “He cooked and cleaned and he ran the bath water for me.”

Page’s insane jealously took over, she said, and he hit her with a belt and demanded to know if she had another boyfriend. But they always made up.

“Why didn’t you go to the police,” Purce asked.

“Because I loved Jason,” Council said. “I loved him and I figured it would stop sooner or later.”