(CNN)The ex-wife of Missouri Republican Senate candidate Eric Greitens says in a new court filing that she has photographs of injuries to their child in 2019 and other documentation of Greitens' alleged abuse.
In a document filed in Boone County Circuit Court on March 31, Sheena Greitens says allegations of her ex-husband's abuse were reported to "multiple lawyers, therapists, and our mediator, in 2018 and afterward."
"I will provide contemporaneous documentation of the relevant communications, as well as photographic evidence of my child's 2019 injuries, to the court at the appropriate time," Sheena Greitens said.
The filing, which is part of a custody battle over the former couple's two children, comes after Greitens and his attorneys accused his ex-wife of lying in a March court filing in which she detailed allegations of abuse against Greitens, the former governor who is attempting a political comeback after resigning in 2018 amid allegations that he blackmailed and sexually assaulted his former hairdresser.
"Here's the thing, we were kind of hoping that she would have realized she made a mistake," said Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for Eric Greitens. "This seems to indicate that she's really just going to double down."
Parlatore said Sheena Greitens was lying in her filings and maintained -- without providing evidence -- that she was working with GOP political operatives to take down her ex-husband's campaign.
Greitens and his attorneys have cast Sheena Greitens'...
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