NASSAU- A carpet company owner pulled a knife on his girlfriend of three years after throwing a plate of food at her.
Alasky Dieuveille, 36, also threw a bucket at the woman 10 months before his most recent crime.
Dieuveille, of Churchill Avenue, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in relation to the incidents that took place on December 22, 2019 and October 28.
It isn’t clear why police didn’t arrest Dieuveille immediately after the bucket incident when the woman made her first complaint.
In addition to pressing charges, the woman has applied for a restraining order.
Defense lawyer Philip Hilton, who emphasized his client’s previously clean criminal record, asked the court to be as lenient as possible. Mr Hilton also said that the woman was not injured in either incident.
But Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain replied that domestic abuse should never be trivialized.
She said, “Sometimes, it’s not just the physical puncture to the skin, to the body, that’s injury. Sometimes, emotional or mental abuse is just as bad, if not worse, than the physical hurt.”
In sentencing, Magistrate Swain described Dieuveille’s actions as reprehensible.
He has to pay $2,000 in fines to the Crown to avoid spending one year in prison. The magistrate ordered him to pay $2,000 in compensation to his victim, so he won’t spend an extra 30 days in prison.
Dieuveille has also been banned from contacting the woman for one year and he is required to attend anger management classes.
If this man did all of these things why did the women stay with him for three years