Wife Sent To Jail For Refusing To Do Housework

For refusing to wash the clothes of her husband, a Mexican wife Dulce Requena was sent to Jail. Her husband Mr Alvarado felt this was the best way he could “teach her a lesson” for refusing to do house work.

The Daily Mail reports:

Dulce Requena Garcia, 21, spent 12 hours in the Tampico city jail over the weekend after her spouse, Edgar Ivan Perez Alvarado, 26, called police to complain that his better half was shirking her responsibilities as a homemaker.

Mrs Garcia was slapped with a fine for causing a disturbance, which she could not afford.

Wanting to teach her a lesson, Garcia’s husband refused to pay the fine, which resulted in her brief incarceration.

Mr Alvarado, a truck driver by trade, lamented in court that his young wife and the mother of his three children, ages 2, 4 and 6, spent too much time lying in bed watching TV instead of doing housework.

He also accused her of threatening and insulting his mother and sisters.

Things between the feuding spouses, who reportedly have been together for seven years, came to a head last Saturday when Mr Alvarado returned home from work and asked Garcia to clean his clothes so he could go out with friends.

The 21-year-old wife and mother of three accused her husband of planning to meet a mistress for a tryst and refused to wash his outfit.

That is when the peeved trucker decided to appeal to the local police force for help with his disobedient spouse.

In court, Alvarez explained that he wanted Garcia jailed just long enough for her to ‘calm down.’

Garica, on her part, argued that when her husband came to her asking to do laundry, she was not feeling well. She also accused him of cheating on her with another woman and being an absentee husband and father.

When Mrs Garcia could not come up with the 400 pesos – the equivalent of $25 – to pay the fine, a judge sentenced her to 12 hours behind bars.