Nathan James Sumpter (Butte County District Attorney”s Office).
A man in California has learned his fate for hurting the mother of his child in a “vicious” attack, authorities said this week.
Nathan James Sumpter, 28, was sentenced on Thursday to two years and eight months in state prison, the Butte County District Attorney’s announced.
The sentencing came after the defendant previously pleaded no contest to felony charges of assault likely to cause great bodily injury and dissuading a witness, as well as a misdemeanor for violating a previous restraining order.
On July 8, Sumpter went to the home of his child’s mother despite an active restraining order barring him from doing so, authorities said. Law enforcement officers responded to the residence, but Sumpter “hid in the home and threatened the victim and her family if she reported his presence.”
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The officers left, and Sumpter was free to step out of his hiding place.
“That evening Sumpter punched the victim in the face and strangled her,” the DA’s office said.
But the violence didn’t end 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,” Butte County authorities went on.
The man hurt the woman so badly she remained unresponsive, and he called her aunt to come over because he was “panicked” about her state. Law enforcement was also called, and the victim was taken to a nearby hospital “where she received treatment for a fractured eye socket.”
Sumpter had fled the home by the time officers arrived back there, and he was later arrested.
Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey noted how Sumpter’s defense attorney wanted a probation term for her client, “but the prosecution argued for a state prison term based on the egregious nature of the domestic violence.”
Ramsey highlighted 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.”
