A DuPage County judge on Tuesday extended an order of protection against a man suspected of beating his estranged wife last month in an attack that may have left the woman permanently disabled.
An assistant DuPage County state’s attorney told Judge Patrick Leston that 34-year-old Eric L. Kramarenko of Elmhurst is the prime suspect in the Feb. 9 bludgeoning of Lisa Kramarenko in her Fordham Drive apartment in Glendale Heights. The statement from prosecutor Jane Radostits came as the judge in the couple’s divorce proceedings was considering whether Eric Kramarenko should be allowed to visit his 4-year-old daughter.
No charges have been filed against Kramarenko, but Radostits told the judge that evidence being processed could bring an investigation to completion within 60 days. Eric Kramarenko declined to comment after Tuesday’s hearing.
An attorney for Lisa Kramarenko has filed an affidavit, in which the woman states she believes her husband was her attacker. Asked whether Kramarenko has been questioned by investigators, Radostits indicated that he has exercised his right to an attorney and has declined to be questioned.
In extending the order of protection in the case, Leston told Kramarenko he is not to see his daughter or his estranged wife, who is at an out-of-state rehabilitation clinic. He may telephone his daughter three times a week, Leston said, but the conversations can be recorded.
Psychologist Gregory Malo, who treated Lisa Kramarenko after she was released from the intensive care unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove last month, testified as part of Tuesday’s hearing. Malo told the judge it would be harmful to the 4-year-old and her mother if Eric Kramarenko were allowed to see the girl.
Kramarenko, whose age has not been released by authorities, suffered injuries consistent with being beaten with a metal rod, Malo testified. She suffered multiple blunt trauma to her cranium, a fractured right eye socket and several fractures to her right arm.
“Her skull looked as if you had dropped a hard-boiled egg,” Malo told the judge. “She was brutally beaten.”
The woman is battling post-traumatic stress disorder, Malo said, and her brain function will need further monitoring. She also may never have full use of her right eye and right hand, he testified.
Lisa Kramarenko’s divorce attorney, Robert Downs, said the couple’s separation has been contentious. He told Leston Tuesday that Eric Kramarenko had taken his daughter from her mother without permission in recent months.
“She greatly fears at this time any contact between Eric Kramarenko and her child, or herself,” Downs said. Leston said the newly extended order of protection would last until the court revisits the issue at a later date.
Downs tried to put Eric Kramarenko on the stand Tuesday, but Kramarenko’s attorney, Brian Grady, said Kramarenko would decline to testify on 5th Amendment grounds.
Eric Kramarenko has no criminal background in DuPage County, according to court records.
