The wife of Kings defenseman Slava Voynov, who has been accused of domestic violence, does not believe Voynov intended to hurt her and doesn’t want him to be charged with a crime, her lawyer said Saturday evening.

Irvine-based lawyer Michael Walsh told the Register that the woman involved in the incident is Marta Varlamova, Voynov’s wife, and that she desires to be publicly identified in order to clear up confusion and rumors regarding her identity.

Walsh said Varlamova is not granting interviews, but he spoke at some length about her mindset and what she wants to happen going forward. Walsh did not disagree with the assertion, presented by Voynov’s lawyer, that the incident was an “accident,’’ but also declined to go into specifics about the incident.

Voynov was arrested early Monday morning at Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance, where he was with Varlamova as she sought medical treatment. Police have said hospital staffers suspected a domestic violence situation and then called Redondo Beach police, who arrested Voynov.

Voynov has been suspended indefinitely by the NHL but has not been charged with a crime. Redondo Beach detectives presented Voynov’s case to the District Attorney’s office on Thursday, but the DA’s office sent the case back to local authorities for further investigation.

Here is what Walsh said about the case…

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(on Marta Varlamova’s side of this story…)

WALSH: “It’s very complicated, and I’m going to be somewhat limited in the detail that I’ll give about specifics about what happened, because her husband is embroiled in a legal issue that she doesn’t want to interfere with. I can tell you that she’s doing OK. They are together. They’re married and they intend to remain married. She did not ask for him to be arrested and was surprised, frankly, to find that he had been arrested. She was injured in the incident. It was not a result of being punched or struck by Slava. He has characterized it as an accident. Her characterization of it is pretty similar. For a variety of reasons, I don’t want to give my account of what I understand happened. Among those reasons is the fact that neither one of them is extremely good at communicating in English, and in particular, she can speak and understand some English but she is far from fluent. She hasn’t yet spoken to the NHL and she hasn’t given any statements to the police, other than the statements they took from her the night of the incident. She was not checked into the hospital. She just went to the ER. She was treated and released. In fact, she spent more time dealing with everyone questioning her about what happened than she did getting medical treatment.’’

(on the assertion, by Voynov’s lawyer, that the incident was an “accident’’…)

WALSH: “That probably is an accurate word. The way she would characterize it is, she didn’t think there was anything that occurred that she would interpret as anything that resulted from anything Slava intended to do to hurt her. The police did ask her if she thought he intended to hurt her and if she was afraid of him. She did say, no, she didn’t think he had done anything to try to hurt her and that she wasn’t afraid of him. They were back together almost immediately and they intend to remain married. They’re not going through any sort of separation or anything of that nature.’’

(on her injuries, if she had visible injuries and/or suffered any extensive injuries…)

WALSH: “No. If you saw her today, there’s a good chance you wouldn’t know anything happened.’’

(on whether she will be willing to speak to police further and whether she wants charges filed…)

WALSH: “She did not ask that he be arrested or prosecuted and does not want that now. She doesn’t think that Slava did anything to try to hurt her.’’

(on the idea, presented by Voynov’s lawyer, that there was a “misunderstanding” between her and the police…)

WALSH: “I haven’t seen what the police report says about what she said. It wouldn’t, at all, surprise me if there were miscommunications due to the language barrier. We have, at times, had to work hard to communicate with her. If she was trying to carry on a conversation in English only, with people asking the same question repeatedly in different words, she would struggle with that. But I don’t know, because I haven’t seen the report. I might look at the report and say, `That sounds exactly right,’ or I might look at the report and say, `That’s very different from what she told me.’ When I’ve spoken to her, we have had an interpreter present. There have been more than a few occasions in which, without the interpreter, there would have been no accurate communication on a particular topic.’’