(Stillwater, Okla.) – A Cushing man who admitted assaulting his girlfriend while she was seven months’ pregnant with his child and abusing her 2-year-old son was given a six-month jail term followed by seven and one-half years of probation with extensive conditions, as part of a plea bargain approved in court Friday by District Judge Phillip Corley.
Christopher Joseph Ray Hockemeyer, 26, must be evaluated for substance and domestic abuse, follow any recommended treatment, perform the recommendations contained in a background report for the court, have a DNA test, pay a $150 fine and contribute $150 to the victims’ compensation fund, the judge ordered Friday.
As a result of an incident that occurred four months earlier, Hockemeyer was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after he allegedly stabbed himself, court records show. For that misdemeanor, Hockemeyer was given a concurrent six-month jail term Friday.
In his domestic violence case, Hockemeyer was arrested in the 800 block of E. Maple Street on July 30 by Cushing Police Officer Rachel Hentges.
His girlfriend said that he spanked her 2-year-old son “extremely hard and they had an altercation when she intervened,” the officer wrote in an affidavit.
She said she was upstairs in the bathroom when she heard the 2-year-old “screaming, crying and calling for her,” the affidavit said.
She said when she came out of the bathroom, the boy “was up against the wall in the bedroom with his arms behind his back as Hockemeyer struck him,” the affidavit said.
She said Hockemeyer spanked the boy so hard that it caused him to defecate on himself, the affidavit said.
She believed she saw blood on the boy’s buttocks which scared her and she told Hockemeyer to stop, the affidavit said.
She said that Hockemeyer tried to leave the residence with another child, their 1-year-old son, and that when she tried to pick him up, Hockemeyer pushed her out of the way, the affidavit said.
She said her stomach hurt because she was seven months’ pregnant and denied that Hockemeyer pushed her in the stomach, “but stated he pushed her upper body very forcefully and knocked her backward several times,” the affidavit said.
She said “during the altercation, Hockemeyer punched the wall in the residence several times,” with their 1-year-old in his arms, and when he did that, the 1-year-old boy’s head hit the wall, the affidavit said.
She took both boys to the Cushing hospital where the officer saw the 2-year-old “had bruises on both sides of his buttocks, extending down the back of both legs,” as well as a linear line across his right lower back, the affidavit said.
The 2-year-old “also had bruising on his lower right jaw and the left side of his neck,” that appeared consistent with Hockemeyer holding his neck to keep his face against the wall, the affidavit said.
When Hockemeyer was interviewed, he said “he spanked him because he had left the refrigerator open and spilled a container of nails on the floor,” the affidavit said. Hockemeyer said he spanked his girlfriend’s 2-year-old a total of four times, the affidavit said. “Hockemeyer admitted that he used too much force and spanked (him) too hard,” the affidavit said.
“Hockemeyer told me when he becomes angry, he does not know how to control his temper,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“I asked Hockemeyer why he thought it was appropriate to forcefully push his pregnant girlfriend and knock her backwards,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
“Hockemeyer then told me that he pushed (his girlfriend) because she had been hitting him in the head and neck. Hockemeyer said he wanted her to get away from him so he could leave with his (1-year-old) son. Hockemeyer did not have any obvious physical injury on his head or neck,” the officer wrote in her affidavit.
Hockemeyer had blood on the knuckles of his right hand, the affidavit said.
“Hockemeyer admitted that he struck the wall inside the residence with his fist and when he did this, (his 1-year-old son’s) head hit the wall,” the affidavit said.
“Hockemeyer stated he had been holding (the 1-year-old) in his arm when this occurred and it was accidental,” the affidavit said.
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