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Man in domestic violence gets 14 days in jail
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Posted on Jul 03 2011
A man who allegedly repeatedly punched his son after the boy tried to stop him from beating up his mother at their home in Dandan, has entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to 14 days in prison.
Sumit Dhakal, 30, signed a plea agreement with the Office of the Attorney General. He pleaded guilty to the charge of disturbing the peace.
Superior Court associate judge Kenneth L. Govendo accepted Dhakal’s guilty plea last Wednesday.
The defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, all suspended except 14 days. He was given credit for the seven days he already served in jail.
Dhakal was ordered to start serving the remaining seven days at the Department of Corrections on July 8, 2011 at 8am.
After completing the jail term, the defendant will be placed on probation for two years. He was required to pay a $250 fine, $150 probation fee, plus court costs.
Govendo ordered Dhakal to submit to mental examination focusing on anger management.
The OAG filed an information on April 4, 2011 charging Dhakal with child abuse, two counts of assault and battery, and two counts of disturbing the peace.
Dhakal and counsel, assistant public defender Douglas Hartig, signed a plea agreement with the government. In exchange for pleading guilty to disturbing the peace, assistant attorney general Tiberius Mocanu, as counsel for the government, agreed to dismiss the remaining charges. The prosecutor also agreed to not move to revoke defendant’s probation in a previous criminal conviction in 2010.
According to the plea agreement, on March 26, 2011, Dhaka disturbed the peace of his wife and their minor son.
Detective Catherine B. Pangelinan stated in her report that the wife sustained a cut on her left foot after Dhakal broke a shelf and threw a broken piece at her, hitting her left foot.
Hearing the noise, the son came into the room to stop his father, but Dhakal allegedly punched the boy five times in the head and once in the face. It was the wife who called police.
In May 2010, police also arrested Dhakal for allegedly beating up his wife and resisted efforts by police to apprehend him at their residence.
