(Stillwater, Okla.) — A man originally accused of kidnapping, raping and beating his girlfriend at his workplace north of Stillwater avoided a jury trial in Payne County on Feb. 23 by pleading guilty to reduced charges of domestic abuse resulting in great bodily injury and possession of methamphetamine, both occurring in Kay County, for which he was given two concurrent 10-year prison terms Friday by Payne County District Judge Phillip Corley in the two-county case.
Steven Michael Peters, 29, of Hominy, who was arrested in Blackwell and held on $1 million bail in the Kay County Detention Center, also pleaded guilty Friday to threatening to kill his girlfriend and her baby in Payne County if she tried to get away from him, along with abusing her in Payne County, for which he was given two concurrent one-year jail terms Friday.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Landis wrote in an affidavit that after Peters was arrested by Blackwell police in Kay County on domestic violence charges, he interviewed the victim who told him about what happened to her in Payne County.
Peters’ girlfriend said that on Sept. 20, 2013, she and her six-month-old baby boy were forced by Peters to go with him to his workplace in the 8200 block of N. Washington Street, north of Stillwater, where Peters worked alone on his shift as a dispatcher, according to the affidavit.
She said that during the night, Peters “started hitting her in the face, knocked her to the floor and started hitting and kicking her,” according to the affidavit.
She said “she got back on her feet, then the defendant threw her onto a desk and started hitting her in the stomach and ribs with his fist,” the affidavit said.
She said “she tried to block his punches and the defendant told her that if she continued to block his punches he would knock her teeth out, so she stopped blocking attempts,” the affidavit said.
She said he then hit her with his fist several times in the vagina, the affidavit said.
She said that Peters made her perform oral sex on him and then he performed anal sex on her before raping her, the affidavit alleged.
After again forcing her to perform oral sex, Peters again kicked her and performed anal sex on her before choking her and hitting her in the head, face and body, the affidavit alleged.
She said that Peters then started beating her with his belt on her buttocks and back, the affidavit said.
She said that Peters made her go into the bathroom to clean up, the affidavit said.
She said that “she was bleeding and getting blood on the floor and sink and the defendant threatened to cover the entire area in her blood if she did not get it cleaned up, so she did,” the affidavit alleged.
She said Peters “then talked to her about how she was not worth anything, demeaning her and told her she should just kill herself,” the affidavit alleged. She said “she just agreed with him,” the affidavit said.
After being attacked between Sept. 21 to Sept. 25 of 2013, she said “sexual attacks and physical attacks continued at numerous locations including highways and areas in other counties,” the affidavit alleged.
“Then on Sept. 25, 2013, while in Blackwell and after the defendant threatened to kill (her), she had the chance to escape the defendant’s control and obtain help from a citizen and then the Blackwell police who arrested the defendant,” the affidavit said.
Peters avoided the possibility of being found guilty of committing a pattern of criminal offenses in Payne and Kay counties, kidnapping, first-degree rape, domestic assault and battery, threats to kill and domestic assault and battery resulting in great bodily injury, by pleading guilty to the reduced charges.
If he had been convicted of his original charges by a Payne County jury at a trial next week, Peters could have been sentenced to as much as life in prison without parole plus 33 and one-half years of incarceration, court records show.
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