Battery Charge Dropped In Dildo Attack Case

NOVEMBER 5--Prosecutors have declined to pursue a criminal charge against a Florida woman who was arrested for allegedly striking her girlfriend in the face with a dildo during a confrontation in the couple’s home, court records show.

In a recent filing, the State Attorney’s Office disclosed that they will not press a domestic battery charge against Annette Kielhurn, a 57-year-old St. Petersburg resident who was arrested in July.

Prosecutors did not reveal why they decided to drop the misdemeanor count, though Kielhurn’s girlfriend recently wrote to a Circuit Court judge seeking the case’s dismissal. Gamze Capaner-Ridley, 47, argued that Kielhurn, in light of media coverage of the case, “doesn’t deserve to suffer more than she already has.”

As detailed in a police report, the July 11 tussle between Kielhurn and Capaner-Ridley occurred while a St. Petersburg Police Department officer was inside the duo’s home. The cop was there to oversee Capaner-Ridley’s removal of personal belongings from the property, since she had, a day earlier, filed for a domestic violence injunction against Kielhurn.

In her court petition, Capaner-Ridley wrote that she feared Kielhurn (seen above) and was concerned that, “I will come out of that house in a body bag.” She alleged that the “raging” Kielhurn had been “extremely abusive physically, emotionally” on multiple occasions.

As Capaner-Ridley gathered up items from the house, she tussled with Kielhurn over possession of a dress, reported Officer Eric Blomgren. Though the cop ordered Kielhurn not to touch Capaner-Ridley, “Shortly afterwards the defendant intentionally shoved a ‘dildo’ in the victim’s face and grabbed her right arm while arguing whose it belonged to.”

Blomgren then arrested Kielhurn for domestic battery. Kielhurn, who has Capaner-Ridley’s first name tattooed on her chest, is a former New York State corrections officer and a convicted felon. Kielhurn served about three years in prison for narcotics trafficking after a 1996 police search of her rental car turned up 25 kilos of cocaine in the trunk.

The dropping of the dildo case leaves Kielhurn with only one criminal matter on her personal docket. She was arrested in June on a trespassing charge after allegedly refusing to leave Johnny Vapors, a St. Petersburg business that promotes itself as a “premium e-cigs and vape lounge.” (5 pages)