Police: Man Advised to Apply for PFA Order Against His Child’s Mother

A Norristown man was advised to apply for a Protection From Abuse order after he told police that the mother of his child had damaged his apartment door while trying to get in, a week after she allegedly forcibly entered his apartment and stole his phone, say police.

On Tuesday evening a man told police that he had been in his apartment, at the 0 block of West Airy Street, earlier on, when the mother of his child, standing in the hallway, started shouting at him and banging on his door, according to a Norristown police report.

There was another female in the alleged victim’s apartment. He did not want his child’s mother to come in. He opened the door a bit to converse with her, after which she allegedly pushed on the bottom part of the door, which cracked and bent inward.

The victim let her to come in and she left after a few minutes. Police saw that there was damage to the door.

The victim told police that his child’s mother forcibly entered his apartment last week and stole his phone, according to the report. The victim was advised to apply for a Protection From Abuse order.