Pelosi Attacker Described As 'Monster' Dad

Assailant entered via a back door

82-year-old Paul Pelosi was able to summon the police to his $6-million San Francisco home at 2.27am Friday by dialing 911 from his cellphone while his attacker was still inside the house. 

Paul & Nancy Pelosi

“What’s going on? Why are you here? What are you going to do to me?” Pelosi allegedly said in order to alert 911 to the emergency without tipping off intruder to the call,

The 911 operator is said to have sensed something was wrong and prioritized the call, likely saving his life. She declared an emergency instead of a less urgent welfare check. Police were at the home within two minutes of receiving the call and arrested David DePape, 42. DePape beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer and fractured his skull while shouting 'where's Nancy?'. 

DePape smashed a glass door at the back of the property and tried to tie Paul Pelosi up, according to reports. He started shouting 'where's Nancy' and cops say he jostled with Pelosi over the hammer before the attack. DePape grew up north of the border but moved from British Columbia to California 20 years ago. He lived with nudist activists in the liberal enclave of Berkeley and was best man at a 2013 nudist wedding.

DePape (left) was due to be charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary and “several other additional felonies,” police said.

Pelosi, meanwhile, is set to make a full recovery.

The daughter of DePape says that her father is 'consumed by darkness' and sexually abused her and her brothers when they were children. Inti Gonzalez blogged that her mother met DePape - whom she describes as her father - in Maui when she was pregnant with her. The couple moved to the Bay Area soon after Gonzalez was born. According to his daughter, DePape slowly became 'toxic' until Gonzalez's mother left him when she was 13-years-old. After DePape was out of the home, her brother Nebosvod began to have memories of their father 'physically and sexually abusing me and my brothers, which started when we were very young and continued until around 2008, when [Gonzalez] was 7.' Gonzalez wrote that her father's alleged violent attack on Pelosi was 'not much' of a shock 'considering the kind of extreme abuse he had inflicted on me and my brothers.'