BATON ROUGE, La. - Candy Edwards, the former wife of jailed ex-governor Edwin Edwards was allegedly the victim of domestic abuse over the weekend, according to a police report that first came to light in a news report by WWL Radio.
The police report from East Baton Rouge Parish says that 34-year-old Brian Low, who has a child with Candy Edwards, was arrested and charged with second-degree battery after a deputy arrived at Low’s mother’s home and found Edwards bleeding from a cut on the side of her forehead and with half of a tooth missing.
The report says that attack occurred when Edwards went to the home to pick up their child.
Edwards was divorced from Edwin Edwards after he was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to ten years in prison in a corruption case.
