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Teen convicted in attack on girlfriend
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Posted on Mar 30 2006
The Superior Court has convicted a teenager who, while under the influence of alcohol, attacked his girlfriend with rocks at Upper Miha Housing in Garapan.
Associate Judge Juan T. Lizama accepted 19-year-old Vicente Santer Camacho’s guilty plea to attempted aggravated assault and battery.
Lizama sentenced Camacho to five years in prison, all suspended except for two years.
The judge gave Camacho credit for the 116 days he has already served in jail and further ordered him to pay a $500 fine and $100 court assessment fee plus probation fee.
The Attorney General’s Office charged the defendant with assault with a dangerous weapon. The AGO then filed an amended information charging the defendant with one count of attempted aggravated assault and battery.
The teenager and his counsel signed a plea agreement with the government. He pleaded guilty.
Court papers said that on Nov. 13, 2005, the victim and Camacho were walking along the Upper Miha Road between 4pm to 5am. The drunken Camacho repeatedly cussed at his girlfriend and asked if she wanted him to beat her up. The defendant then threw rocks at his girlfriend three times but he failed to hit her, police said.
Camacho’s friend tried to pacify him as the frightened woman sat in the middle of the road. The defendant, however, came from behind and struck the girlfriend with a rock on the head. Police said the victim sustained a three-cm cut on the back of head that required four stitches to close up.
Camacho ran away when he saw the arriving police vehicles.
