A man in California has learned his fate after injuring his child’s mother in a “vicious” attack, authorities announced this week.
The Butte County District Attorney’s office announced on Thursday that Nathan James Sumpter, 28, had been sentenced to two years and eight months in state prison.
The defendant previously pleaded no contest to felony charges of assault likely to cause great bodily harm and intimidating a witness, as well as a misdemeanor for violating a previous restraining order.
Sumpter went to his child’s mother’s home on July 8, despite an active restraining order, according to authorities. Law enforcement officers arrived at the scene, but Sumpter “hid in the home and threatened the victim and her family if she reported his presence.”
The officers left, and Sumpter was free to leave his hiding place.
“That evening, Sumpter punched the victim in the face and strangled her,” the District Attorney’s office stated.
But the violence did not stop there.
“Sumpter’s brutality continued the next morning when he strangled her to the point of unconsciousness and stomped on her face in front of their two-year-old child,” the Butte County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The man hurt the woman so badly that she became unresponsive, and he summoned her aunt because he was “panicked” about her condition. Law enforcement was also called, and the victim was transported to a nearby hospital “where she received treatment for a fractured eye socket.”
Sumpter had fled the home by the time officers returned, and he was later apprehended.
Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey stated that Sumpter’s defense attorney sought probation for her client, “but the prosecution argued for a state prison term based on the egregious nature of the domestic violence.”
Ramsey emphasized the “insidious nature” of domestic violence — “as it occurs out of sight behind closed doors and its negative effects on families and the community at large.”
