Somehow Charlie Sheen has managed to maintain a television career for which he earns millions an episode despite the fact that two of his ex wives claim he physically abused them and threatened to kill them. E! Online has an interview with one of the police officers who responded when Sheen attacked his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, on Christmas day, and she helps remind us of Brooke’s very serious allegations. She also says that it’s clear from the extent of Brooke’s injuries that she was abused by Charlie, and that she wishes those photos could have been made public. Charlie has managed to avoid even very lenient jail time for that incident by skirting through a series of loopholes. I’m glad that this is getting more press now. Charlie can only personally attack Brooke’s character for so long. It doesn’t matter if she was drunk and drugged out of her mind too, it doesn’t excuse what he’s done. Here’s E!’s report:

You’ve read about the morning Charlie Sheen was arrested for assaulting wife Brooke Mueller in Aspen, the police report stating that he pushed her onto their bed and held a knife to her throat.

Former Aspen Police Officer Valerie McFarlane interviewed Mueller and took close-up photographs of her injuries following her Christmas Day fight with Sheen, which, according to official accounts, turned violent after Mueller said she wanted a divorce.

McFarlane, in an exclusive interview with E! News, says that the public should see what Mueller looked like after that fight.

“When you see those photos, it changes everything,” McFarlane says. “You see the pictures, you get it. You really get it.”

The police report stated that Mueller had “visible” red marks on her neck, “consistent with a strangulation attempt,” and faded bruises on her arms from a “huge fight” in October 2009.

Though they had been in “previous altercations,” McFarlane says, “this one really scared her because he had her on the bed with a knife. She really feared for her life.”

Mueller told her that Sheen spit on her while holding her down, McFarlane says, and held that knife to her throat for “approximately 20 minutes.”

McFarlane, who was fired by the department for allegedly parlaying her insider status on the Sheen case into perks and favorable treatment from an Aspen Daily News reporter who was covering the proceedings, tells E! News that she’s speaking out now to raise awareness about domestic violence.

When she talked to her in December, Mueller showed her the bruises from the October fight, McFarlane says.

“Then she explained that they previously had a fight which he threw her like a rag doll and she had hit her head on a table ,and she eventually had to visit four different doctors—and I think one was a neurologist because of the injuries that she sustained,” the former cop says.

According to the December police report, Mueller did have a CAT scan after banging her head in October. Sheen characterized her fall as an accident and the incident was never reported.

After months of negotiations that ultimately worked in his favor, Sheen ended up pleading guilty to third-degree domestic violence, for which he spent 30 days in a treatment facility for “behavioral modification.”

[From E! Online]

That last line in E!’s article make it sound like Charlie actually faced consequences for his behavior. He was sentenced to 30 days in rehab, but that was reduced to time served because he’d already been a rehab earlier this year. It’s not like he had to even go to anger management counseling as a result of beating Brooke. Also, the officer mentioned in the video interview on E! that Charlie told Brooke he knew ex cops he could hire to kill her without leaving a trace. This is exactly what he told his ex wife, Denise Richards, as she alleged in the divorce decree, and seems to be his M.O.

Meanwhile this guy is making at least a million bucks an episode for Two and a Half Men and is one of the highest paid actors on television. How has he managed to maintain his image amid all this? He’s very slippery, I’ll give that to him.