EAGLE ROCK : Man Gets 545 Days in Jail for Chronic Spouse Abuse
An Eagle Rock man prosecuted under a new chronic spouse abusers law will spend the next 545 days in jail, the city attorney’s office said Friday.
David Torres, 25, pleaded no contest Thursday to three counts of spousal battery and was sentenced by Los Angeles Municipal Judge Abraham Kahn.
Torres is the third defendant in less than a month to receive a substantial jail term under the Spousal Abuser Prosecution Project. Torres, who was convicted five years ago for spousal battery, also was fined $200, placed on three years probation and ordered to stay away from his wife and her home, said Deputy City Atty. Richard Kraft.
In the latest incident, the woman was punched in the eye, bitten on the arm and struck with a screwdriver handle, the prosecutor said.
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