Battery charge follows sex life complaint

SPRING HILL — A 50-year-old woman was arrested Thursday after Hernando County deputies said she hit her 78-year-old husband several times because she was upset about their sex life.

Ursula Fitzner faces a charge of battery on a person 65 or older. Her husband told sheriff’s deputies that she sat in his lap for about 16 hours and became irate because she couldn’t have sex with him, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

A deputy observed minor red marks on the husband’s forearm and neck. Fitzner told authorities she did not hit him.

She has been arrested several times on similar charges, though some were dropped or abandoned, according to state records. After she was charged in late 2003 and early 2004 with aggravated battery, Hernando County judges found Fitzner not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered her committed to the Florida Department of Children and Families.

A judge ordered her recommitted to DCF on July 25, and she was discharged from a Florida State Hospital on Jan. 17.

--Justin George and Joel Anderson, Times staff writers