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Ex-convict gets 6 months for beating Tinian woman
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Posted on Feb 04 2012
By Ferdie de la Torre
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Superior Court associate judge David A. Wiseman imposed yesterday a three-month prison term on an ex-convict who is on probation for domestic violence on Saipan and was convicted again for beating up a woman on Tinian.
In his written order, Wiseman sentenced Joseph Naputi Borja to a year in prison, all suspended except for three months, for assault and battery.
Wiseman, however, ordered that the three-month sentence shall run consecutively with another three-month sentence in a previous criminal case. This means the 28-year-old Borja shall serve a total of six months in prison.
He will be placed on probation for two years and required to perform 100 hours of community service, enroll in alcohol and drug counseling, and pay the medical fees of the victim.
Borja pleaded guilty on Wednesday as part of a plea deal.
Police said the victim the case sustained several injuries and was taken to the Tinian Health Center for a laceration above the left eye. She complained of pain in the left ribcage and back.
The police report did not indicate the victim’s relationship with Borja.
Borja told responding officers on Oct. 30, 2011, on Tinian, that the victim fell and hit her left forehead on a wood.
One of the children at the scene told the officer, however that she saw Borja punching and kicking her mother. Borja was then arrested.
Last June, the Superior Court imposed a 20-day jail term on Borja for domestic violence on Saipan.
