By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing man — who admitted abusing his ex-girlfriend three times — was released from the Payne County Jail this week to be transported to the CAAIRS treatment program as a condition of an eight-year probationary sentence, which also requires him to complete a 52-week Menders’ program, court records show today.
Robert Eugene Stallings Jr., 33, must also pay a $960 prosecution fee under the sentence imposed by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler this week.
Stallings was already on probation for threatening to stab his ex-girlfriend with a large hunting knife and trying to strangle her in 2019 — when he was arrested on May 30 after a neighbor called police at 4:15 am, court records show.
The neighbor said, “I was woken up by a woman screaming. I went outside to see what the issue was. It was coming down in between two houses just east of me,” where he thought the woman “was getting beat up or raped,” Cushing Police Officer Christopher Haywood wrote in an affidavit.
The woman said, “she had been sleeping on the bed when Stallings woke her up demanding she unlock her phone so that he could look at her messages,” the affidavit said.
The woman said, “when she refused, Stallings slammed her against a wall. (She) said she tried to push back and Stallings bit her right hand just above the thumb,” the affidavit said.
The woman said, “Stallings then tried to drag her out of the bed. (She) said while being drug out of the bed, her right leg was scraped against the bed’s wood frame,” the affidavit said.
When Stallings was asked what happened, he immediately said that the woman had bitten herself, the affidavit said. “Stallings then stated, ‘I never touched her,"” the affidavit said.
In another domestic violence incident on April 2, the woman said Stallings hit her with a lamp and dragged her by her right ankle, court records show.
The woman had obtained emergency protective orders against Stallings on Feb. 11 of this year and on April 23 of last year, but both were subsequently dismissed for lack of prosecution when she failed to appear in court.
When Stallings pleaded guilty in August to his two latest felony domestic violence charges, he did not have an agreement with the prosecution regarding his sentence — so a hearing was held this week, court records show.
The judge ruled this week that Stallings had violated the probation he was given along with a 180-day jail term in 2019 for domestic assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and gave Stallings a 90-day jail term to serve after he completes his treatment program, court records show.
***
