(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater woman with a criminal record of child abuse, conspiracy to commit burglary, and possession of another person’s debit card has pleaded guilty to punching a 13-year-old female relative in the face, as well as drunk driving in Stillwater four months earlier.
Prosecutor Debra Vincent told District Judge Phillip Corley last week that she believed Anthea Elizabeth Bates’ issues were related to alcohol.
“DHS also became involved in this situation. We’re recommending Payne County Drug Court. If she successfully completes that, we’ll recommend a suspended sentence. If she does not, we’ll recommend three years in prison,” the prosecutor told the judge in court.
The judge then ordered that Bates, 33, who has also been known by the surnames of West and Lewis, enroll in the Payne County Drug Court program, with her sentencing in the child abuse case postponed to March 13, 2020.
Bates had been arrested at her trailer at 3:37 a.m. on Aug. 2, 2018, by Stillwater Police Officer Tanner Galbiso, who was sent there at 1:04 a.m. with Officer Shannon Jordan, according to his affidavit.
A 13-year-old girl had called police to report Bates “came home and began hitting her,” the affidavit said. The girl said she had let Bates “go to the bar and when she came home, they got into an argument,” the affidavit said.
The girl said, “when she (Bates) got upset, she punched her in her face and pushed her up against the wall and repeatedly yelled at her saying, ‘I win, I always win,’” the affidavit said.
After the incident in a back bedroom, the girl said she ran to the bathroom, locked herself in and called police, the affidavit said. She said her younger brothers were inside the trailer, the affidavit said.
When the officer attempted to speak to Bates, “due to her level of intoxication, I could not get any information from her,” Galbiso wrote in his affidavit.
According to court records, Bates had previously been convicted of three felonies in Payne County:
* child abuse in 2012 in Stillwater, for which she was placed on five years’ probation in January of 2013;
* conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary in 2010, for which she was placed on five years’ probation in December 2011;
* possessing another person’s debit card in 2007, for which she was originally given a five-year deferred sentence in 2008 that was changed in December 2011 to three years of probation.
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