Man gets four years for beating girlfriend
McHenry County holds abusers accountable.
A 37-year-old Bull Valley man said he didn’t remember fracturing his girlfriend’s nose in October, but he recognized that his bipolar disorder and drug addictions were hurting others.
“I don’t remember doing it, but I’m sure it happened,” Jeffery Mikell said of the attack that also left his 29-year-old girlfriend with black eyes. “Half the time, I blacked out.”
McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather sentenced Mikell to four years in prison Thursday after prosecutors suggested the seven-year maximum prison sentence and his defense attorney suggested the three-year minimum. Prather also suggested Mikell receive substance abuse treatment in prison.
“Whatever you give me, I’ll take it,” Mikell told Prather moments before she issued her decision. “Because it has to stop.”
Probation usually is an option for aggravated domestic battery, but both sides agreed not to seek it as part of the plea agreement Mikell accepted in May.
The whole story is in the NW Herald.
July 23 2010 02:25 pm | In the news