STILLWATER — A Stillwater man has avoided a March 20 jury trial by admitting to hitting a 7-year-old girl on her head and abusing his pregnant girlfriend, court records show.
Joshua Yanez-Aranda, 28, was given a 10-month jail term followed by three years and two months of probation by Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler last week for child abuse and domestic assault and battery as a second offense.
On his release from jail, Yanez must take a domestic violence course, submit a DNA sample, and pay $200 in fines and assessments along with court costs, the judge ordered..
Yanez had been previously been convicted of domestic assault and battery in Marion County, West Virginia, in 2011, and given a 30-day jail term, court records show.
Yanez was arrested on May 5 at 2 a.m. by Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Dakota Murley, who was called to his residence on a neighbor’s report, an affidavit said.
There was yelling in the locked house and it sounded as though the woman needed immediate assistance, the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
“Due to my observations and to prevent worse assault, I advised dispatch to start another unit to my location and kicked the front door open,” the deputy wrote.
“Once I came through the doorway, the male stopped kicking her and she was able to crawl away from him and sit on the couch with her daughter,” the deputy wrote.
The woman, who was 20 weeks’ pregnant and worried about her baby, told the deputy that Yanez was very intoxicated when he came home with a friend, who drove Yanez’s truck back to his own house, the affidavit said.
“He woke up a short time later, still very intoxicated. He realized his truck was gone and started freaking out” — blaming the woman for the truck being stolen, the affidavit said.
“He began punching her in the head and face,” the affidavit said. When her 7-year-old daughter “told Yanez to stop punching her mom,” Yanez punched the child in the top of her head and told her to shut up, the affidavit said.
After the woman repeatedly told him to stop, Yanez threw the woman “against the wall and then onto the floor where he continued to punch and kick her,” the affidavit said.
When Lifenet ambulance staff arrived and checked her vitals, the woman did not want to be taken to the hospital, but she was advised “if she felt anything abnormal as far as pregnancy to call for an ambulance or go to the hospital,” the affidavit said.
Yanez, who was taken to the Payne County Jail, had been living with the woman and her children for over a year and knew that she was 20 months’ pregnant, the affidavit said.
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