‘He would zap me’: Man electrocuted bound wife with jumper cables, forced her to stand on bucket with rope around her neck because he thought she cheated on him

Saul Lucio-Ipina

Saul Lucio-Ipina (Kent County Jail).

A man pleaded no contest to torture charges during his trial in Michigan after his ex-wife gave emotional testimony about how he electrocuted her and forced her to stand atop a bucket with a rope around her neck.

Saul Lucio-Ipina, 30, made the plea after the first day of the trial in Grand Rapids, according to MLive/The Grand Rapids Press. Lucio-Ipina faced charges related to two incidents that occurred last year in the couple’s basement, MLive reported.

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The woman, who has since divorced Lucio-Ipina, described to the jury the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband, a courtroom report from MLive said. The first incident reportedly happened in January 2023. Lucio-Ipina accused her of cheating and forced her to the basement where he had a bucket on the floor and a rope hung on a ceiling beam. He made her stand on top of the bucket.

“And then he put the rope around my neck,” she reportedly testified.

At one point, she slipped off the bucket and hung in the air, she reportedly said, only for her husband to take her down. Then about two months later, during another argument about infidelity, he again took her down to the basement where he forced her into a children’s swing that hung from the ceiling.

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