On Wednesday, a parole commission rejected the parole for a man of 48 years of Rohnert Park sentenced in 2012 for having assaulted his wife in a program to supervise his ex-girlfriend and make her expel.
Then, after Jose Pablo Romero's wife refused to testify as part of the program, he used a cutter to cut an X on his back, leaving her bleeding in a field. But she survived and testified against him at the trial.
With the joint decision of the Board of Directors, Romero, a previously convicted criminal who is serving a perpetuity imprisonment in the prison of aggravated chaos, was denied parole for a three -year term, said district prosecutor Krishna Abrams in a press release.
Abrams, who attended the parole hearing, said in the statement that Romero “turned the life of a 19 -year -old adolescent girl completely upside down” with crimes.
She described the victim “young, impressionable and love”, having met Romero just after being 19 years old and married her in a few weeks.
He then assaulted the victim for weeks, hitting her, cutting her hair and stabbing her in the abdomen. The victim's injuries forced him to hospitalize and undergo emergency surgery. Throughout his ordeal, Romero told him to lie to the police and involve his ex-girlfriend as his attacker.
When the initial assaults did not lead to the arrest of his ex-girlfriend, Romero “became furious and decided that he had to inflict even more important injuries on the victim,” Abrams wrote in the statement.
His wife begged him to abandon this plan; However, he remained determined.
“He took her to his car for hours looking for a place without cameras and without witnesses,” added Abrams. “Once they have reached a dark and isolated area, he parked his car and told him to go out. When the victim tried to flee, she was chased by Romero and an accomplice.”
The woman was then violently attacked, launched and beaten, the attack culminating with Romero using a cutter to cut an X on her back, starting with her shoulders and extending to her waist. He and the accomplice then fled and left the victim to bleed in a field.
Fortunately, the victim survived the attack, “but not without 100 staples and a life scar that recalls daily what she endured,” said Abrams.
“This was one of the most bizarre and disturbing cases that I have ever treated during my career,” she said, adding that the woman has endured odious, insensitive and horrible acts, and “courageously testified during the trial with jury.”
The criminal complaint was filed on August 19, 2011, Romero was sentenced on May 31, 2012 and sentenced to prison on September 17, 2014.
And although many years have passed, “these acts continue to haunt her … and she still takes care of the consequences of this crime and realizes that it will be with her forever,” wrote Abrams.
After hearing Romero and the lawyer, the conditional liberation committee denied is a request for parole, concluding that he “currently presents an unreasonable risk for the community if he is released at the moment,” she wrote in the press release.
Abrams, an elected official who is the head of the police forces of Solano, urges anyone who has been – or knows someone who has been – victim of domestic violence and needs the help of a defender, to call (707) 784-6827.
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