PALMYRA – The mother of a boy gunned down last week made just a single call to 911 in the past three years. But a transcript of that call reveals chilling details of the abuse-filled environment from which 32-year-old April Cooley admitted she needed to flee but did not.

Cooley’s son, Anthony Tucker, 13, was shot repeatedly in the head on the morning of Nov. 28 and Cooley’s boyfriend, Todd Curry, 39, has been arrested and charged with the boy’s murder. He is being held at Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Augusta pending future court appearances.

Although police said they had repeatedly been to the home to investigate reports of domestic disturbances, a three-year search of E-911 records at the Somerset County Communications Center revealed Cooley only made the single call.

All other calls were either from Curry or neighbors.

In the transcript of the call, released this week after the Bangor Daily News made a Freedom of Access Law request, Cooley acknowledges there was a pattern of abuse in the home and that police “had been there 10,000 times.”

In the transcript, which was of a 911 call made Jan. 12, 2006, from 453 Warren Hill Road, the site of the homicide, Cooley said, “I am being beaten by my boyfriend. He is beating on me and won’t stop and he is throwing s– at me and I need somebody here.”

To comply with Maine law, the communications center did not release the name of the caller or the name of her attacker. The FOIA request, however, specifically asked for calls made by April Cooley.

Cooley went on in the call to say that she was hiding in a corner and that her boyfriend “has called the cops on me 10,000 times for no reason.”

Cooley said she was 41/2 months pregnant and that her boyfriend, who was the father of the child, had been hitting her and throwing firewood at her. She said she did not need an ambulance.

As the dispatcher continued to talk with Cooley, she admitted that “I keep letting him get away with it. I probably got to get some of my s– together. I have no place to live but I can’t stay here and get beat on. I’m pregnant.”

She continued: “He’s just beating me up. He put his hands all over me. Beat me with his fists, friggin’ smacking me in the face and head, almost biting me, spitting in my face. This has happened too many times before. I guess he’s a woman beater and I need to get the hell out of here. He thinks he can just keep doing it, I guess.”

Cooley said the police were familiar with the home because “every time we got into an argument, he was calling the cops and now for some reason he feels he can beat on me whenever he feels like it.”

When asked what had prompted the argument between the couple, Cooley responded: “My mouth, I guess.”

Cooley told the dispatcher that no one else was home and that she had a vehicle she could escape in if necessary. She also said there were at least 10 guns in the home.

After the call, Curry was arrested and charged with domestic assault. County prosecutor Evert Fowle said last week that after Cooley refused to testify against Curry, the charge was reduced to disorderly conduct and Curry pleaded guilty last March.

At the same time, Curry obtained a protection from abuse order against Cooley, which he later dropped.

According to police, Cooley lived in Curry’s home with Anthony Tucker, 13, Anthony’s 10-year-old sister and an infant fathered by Curry. Family members said that on the morning he was killed, Tucker made sure his mother and sisters were out of the house and safe before leaving himself.

Officers responding to the scene found his body in the driveway where he died of multiple gunshot wounds to the head.

Assistant Attorney General Andrew Benson said he will be seeking an indictment of Curry by either the December or January grand jury.