Wednesday, March 2, 2005
D.A. BROWN: QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR ASSAULTING YOUNG WOMAN WITH WOOD PLANK
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a Jamaica, Queens man has been sentenced to determinate sentence of seven years in prison for assaulting a young woman and beating her with a wood plank.
District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant was convicted after trial of committing successive beatings on a defenseless young woman. The defendant has shown clearly that he is a danger to society. The prison sentence imposed by the court helps protect other potential victims from attack and punishes him for his violent actions.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Jeffrey Jerome, 32, of 167-16 109th Road in Jamaica, Queens, who said his occupation is barbering. The defendant was convicted on November 4, 2004 after a jury trial of Assault in the Second Degree, Unlawful Imprisonment in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree before Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard L. Buchter who imposed today’s determinate sentence of seven years in prison.
According to District Attorney Brown, the 25-year-old victim testified that on February 10, 2004 the defendant attacked her on the street near his residence in Jamaica and beat the back of her legs using a two by four wood plank that caused severe bruising. She further testified that in a second attack on March 3, 2004, the defendant beat her and used duct tape to bind her hands, arms and legs and then taped her to a basement waste pipe inside his residence. The victim managed to free herself after a few hours and flag down a police car.
Assistant District Attorney Pamela J. Papish of the District Attorney's Domestic Violence Bureau prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Scott E. Kessler, Bureau Chief, and Madeline Singas, Deputy Bureau Chief, and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.