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Jodied75
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08-26-2004

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am so confused...I set my VCR to tape this show twice the last two weeks, and I wound up with some other show instead. Has the station/time changed in Canada? I'm just going by what my TV Guide says...

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Police: Father struck girl, 13, film crew says

A reality TV show film crew intervened when a Nashville father they were following struck his 13-year-old daughter in the face repeatedly, a Metro police report says.

According to police, the girl told a crew from the show Wife Swap that Yanni Panagiotakis, 38, struck her about five times in the face with his fist.

She suffered a ''busted'' and bruised nose and a bruised and swollen right check, the police affidavit said.

Crew members then took the injured 13-year-old to Saint Thomas Hospital.

Panagiotakis and his wife own the Athens Family Restaurant on Franklin Road.

— Ian Demsky

http://tennessean.com/local/archives/05/03/67295059.shtml?Element_ID=67295059



Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Husband's arrest halts 'Wife Swap' production

By IAN DEMSKY
Staff Writer

Restaurateur charged after daughter injured

Production was halted on an episode of ABC's reality TV show Wife Swap being filmed in Nashville after one of the participants was arrested and charged with punching his 13-year-old daughter in the face Tuesday evening, network and police officials said yesterday.

Yanni Panagiotakis, 38, who owns the Athens Family Restaurant on Franklin Road with his wife, Dina, was charged with domestic assault late Tuesday and freed yesterday morning on $1,000 bail, Metro police said.

Reached at their restaurant yesterday afternoon, Dina Panagiotakis said neither she nor her husband would comment, citing the advice of their attorney.

''Please leave us alone so we can get our lives back together,'' she said.

Wife Swap, a popular reality television series, features two families who trade matriarchs for 10 days. According to an ABC Web site, the show allows families to experience how other families run their lives.

Yanni Panagiotakis on Tuesday had driven his daughter to a friend's house on Haydenberry Cove while a four-person film crew from the show traveled in another vehicle in front of them, police said.

In an arrest affidavit, police initially said that the film crew had witnessed the father striking the girl. But police revised that account yesterday, saying the employees arrived shortly after the alleged attack and noticed the girl had obvious injuries to her nose and cheek.

She told the crew members that her father had struck her several times in the face with his fist for not wearing a coat, police said.

The Wife Swap crew took the child to a nearby doctor's office for treatment and then to Saint Thomas Hospital for X-rays. The father did not accompany them.

The girl was examined and released Tuesday evening from Saint Thomas. Afterward, the film crew took her and her 9-year-old brother to a local hotel, accompanied by a representative from the Tennessee Department of Children's Services.

''First and foremost, the well-being of all of the participants in Wife Swap is a top priority,'' ABC officials said in a statement released yesterday. ''At the first realization that the daughter of the Nashville-based family participating in the episode that has been shooting over the past week needed medical attention, the producers immediately sought treatment for her.''

Dina Panagiotakis, who was being filmed with a family in California, flew back to Nashville, and production in both locations was halted permanently.

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/05/03/67333318.shtml?Element_ID=67333318

Halfunit
Moderator

09-02-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 12:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
omg

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow

Mizinvanccouver
Member

02-22-2003

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is horrible! I'm glad they were there to put a stop to this. Who knows how many times she was hit before they started filming them.

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The nanny film crew needs to take a hint from this film crew...

Kudos to them for having the courage to step in...

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How awful! I'm also glad the film crew stepped in.

But....$1,000 bail, when he's just beat on his kid?

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 2:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Interesting.

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How stupid do you have to be to do something like that when you KNOW a film crew is right there?! Geez. Glad it happened that way, though. Who knows what kind of abuse that family has been putting up with up until now.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah,you're probably right Max. He punched her cause she wouldn't put her coat on? WTH?

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 1:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WHY in the world would a family want Wife Swap to come film them IF the dad was an abuser???

No doubt the dad will get out of this. Maybe say the stress of being on the show made him act out. Mom probably will protect him and say the daughter exaggerated. The film crew would only see his arm moving if they were in a different vehicle and may not have Really Seen anything. In the meantime, the poor kids!! I hope the girl is removed permanently from the home.





Babyjaxmom
Member

10-20-2002

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 10:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
He broke her nose cause she didn't wear a coat? I can't believe the mom hasn't already filed for divorce. I would sooooo leave my DH if he laid a hand on our son--or me! Denial is a powerful force. Thank goodness the film crew stepped in. Poor girl!

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 10:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Or it could be something totally different since the cameras weren't there.

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 3:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
True...we are jumping to conclusions. I've seen kids hit themselves and then say someone else did it.

For instance, if Dad really hit her four or five times, would only her nose be broken? Her face should have been smooshed I would theorize.

If someone threw on the brakes too quickly the passenger would hit their face on the dashboard.

Just looking at other possibilities.

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 4:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In an arrest affidavit, police initially said that the film crew had witnessed the father striking the girl. But police revised that account yesterday, saying the employees arrived shortly after the alleged attack and noticed the girl had obvious injuries to her nose and cheek.

She told the crew members that her father had struck her several times in the face with his fist for not wearing a coat, police said.


The film crew didn't see anything, they just noticed the bruises and whatnot after arriving. I don't think she beat herself up for the benefit of the film crew or just to get her dad in trouble. I also believe that when a child claims to have been abused, the child must be given the benefit of the doubt until proven a liar. While kids will claim peers did something they didn't, its not usually that way with adults, especially their parents.

I'm also not so sure her nose is actually }broken. I know one of the articles says her nose was "busted", but the word is also in quotes which makes me its just the use of the common word. I've heard kids say "Man, he busted him in the face", and it didn't mean the person's face was broken. I would like to think a journalist would have said she suffered a broken nose, if that was indeed the case. But who knows?




Mocha
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08-12-2001

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Innocent until proven guilty. That goes for the father too.