A Maury County woman has been charged with reckless homicide for what her attorney says was the accidental asphyxiation of her husband after he consented to be bound and gagged.
“The whole family is upset with what occurred,” Samuel Patterson, an attorney representing 25-year-old Rebecca Bargy, told Columbia newspaper The Daily Herald. “We stand by the fact that this was an accident.”
According to the arrest warrant, Rebecca Bargy placed duct tape over James Bargy’s mouth and eyes, put a ball gag in his mouth and then tied a bandage around his head, leaving only his nostrils showing.
She also tied his hands and legs behind his back. She then left him for 20 hours.
“Apparently, this was not the first time it had happened,” Maury County Sheriff’s Detective Anthony Bailey said of the bondage.
