Prison bars with keys
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man has been jailed pending an Aug. 16 court appearance on charges of sexually battering and hitting his 4-year-old son’s mother as well as destroying her property on July 3 — two years after they reportedly had broken up.
If convicted of the three-count charge, Angel Manzano, 28, who remains held on $5,000 bail, could be incarcerated for up to 12 years, court records show.
Manzano was arrested six blocks from the woman’s apartment at 7:15 am on July 3, about 35 minutes after Stillwater Police Officer Ricardo J. Inciarte was dispatched to her residence regarding a physical domestic in progress, his affidavit said.
“While enroute, I was informed that the suspect had left the residence and he was walking southbound,” the Stillwater officer alleged in his affidavit.
The victim said, “during the night, Angel had arrived intoxicated and told (her) that he had lost his keys to his apartment;” she allowed him to stay for the remainder of the night, the affidavit alleged.
She said, “they had gone to bed clothed and that her son was in the same bed,” when Manzano sexually battered her while she attempted to stop it, the affidavit alleged.
She said that after a few moments of this, she “got up in order to get away from Angel,” who became irate, the affidavit alleged.
“She said that he began to push her around the residence and pinned her against a wall; she told me that she attempted to get him off of her, but it was to no avail. And as Angel continued to get more and more upset, at one point he struck her with his right upper hand across her right cheek,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
She said she “then attempted to grab her minor child, who had witnessed the attack, but was unable to since Angel was blocking the way. She locked herself inside the bathroom and contacted police.
“She said that she heard a lot of things being broken outside of her bathroom, and then there was silence, which was broken moments later after her minor child went to the bathroom door and told her that his father had left,” the affidavit alleged.
“Angel destroyed numerous items in the living room to include a large television, a shoe rack and a very heavy glass coffee table, causing shards of glass to be spread all around the living room while the minor child was in his presence,” the affidavit alleged.
In his affidavit, the officer alleged, “I interviewed Angel, and when I asked him about inappropriately touching (her), he showed clear signs of deception like hiding his face and looking away, lowering his voice and appearing more meek, when during the other questions he had been making eye contact with me and attempting to make it sound like this ordeal was no big deal.”
