Man Charged with Throwing Burnsville Woman to Ground in Custody Exchange

A Lakeville man has been charged with throwing a Burnsville woman out her front door when he arrived earlier than scheduled to pick up their child.

Ryan Allen Bartyzal, 26, is charged with two felony counts of domestic assault, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. 

According to the criminal complaint, police were called to a home in Burnsville on July 21 on a domestic assault report.

When they arrived, they found the victim crying and “very upset,” with bleeding abrasions on her elbows and red marks on her lower back.

The woman told police that Bartyzal, the father of her child, had shown up at her door, assaulted her and took the child with him.

She said Bartyzal usually has the child on weekends, and they had an agreement that he would pick up the child on July 22. He showed up at her home at about 10:15 p.m. July 21 and began knocking, she said.

She didn’t answer the door because she didn’t know who it was, and she wasn’t expecting anyone, she told police. When the knocking got louder and more persistent, the victim opened the door and saw Bartyzal.

She told him she thought he was coming the next day to pick up the child, and said she didn’t want to do a custody exchange until the next morning, because the child was asleep in the living room.

The victim closed the front door, but Bartyzal continued to pound on it, according to the complaint. She heard him kick a toy on the front porch.

When she opened the front door again, Bartyzal grabbed both of her arms, turned her to the doorway and pushed her onto the front step, she said. The victim fell onto her buttocks and elbows before tilting backward and hitting her head on the concrete, she told police.

The victim said she was very afraid of Bartyzal and that she saw a rage in him that she had never seen before. Bartyzal grabbed the child and fled in a pickup truck, according to the complaint.

Police called Bartyzal and could hear the child in the background during the phone call. Bartyzal admitted to officers that he had pushed the victim out of the way and that she had fallen, the complaint says.

A neighbor of the victim told police that she heard loud pounding and went outside to see what it was. She said she saw Bartyzal slam the victim into a brick wall, and saw the victim fall.

The neighbor said she saw the child pulling on Bartyzal’s clothes and ask why he was hitting his mother.

When the victim didn’t get off the ground immediately, the neighbor said, Bartyzal kicked her out of the way, picked up the child and carried him to the truck.

Bartyzal’s criminal record includes convictions in 2007 for domestic assault by strangulation and interfering with a 911 call.

Bartyzal remains in the Dakota County Jail on a $10,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled Aug. 28 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.