(KRON) — A Santa Rosa man who pleaded no contest to bashing a stranger’s face with a rock after groping her in entrance of her daughter, leaving the mom completely disfigured, won’t face any jail time, the Sonoma County District Lawyer’s Workplace introduced this week.
Trevor Lee Colombano, 38, of Santa Rosa, was sentenced Tuesday by Sonoma County Superior Court docket Decide Dana Simonds to 4 years of probation for the Oct. 30, 2023, assault. He had confronted as much as 9 years in state jail along with 18 months in county jail after pleading no contest to assault with a lethal weapon, sexual battery and mayhem.
The decide’s choice countered requests from the sufferer, together with District Lawyer Carla Rodriguez, the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Sonoma County Probation Division to ship Colombano to jail, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
The mom had simply left her Santa Rosa residence on a sunny fall afternoon, joined by her 13-year-old daughter and 13-year-old cousin and household canine, when Colombano approached from behind, prosecutors mentioned. The stranger pressed up towards the mom, and the mom tried to fend him off.
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Colombano began punching the girl within the head earlier than he grabbed a landscaping rock and continued to bash her face with it, in response to the DA’s workplace. The sufferer’s shirt and bra had been ripped off within the wrestle. Two bystanders who noticed the assault pulled Colombano from the mom and pinned him to the bottom till Santa Rosa Police Division officers arrived.
“I have cried more in the last six months than I have in my entire lifetime,” the mom advised the court docket at her attacker’s sentencing. “My daughter and my little cousin, both thirteen at the time, had to witness the whole thing … I cannot even put into words the feeling of not being able to protect yourself or your child at the same time.”
The DA’s workplace mentioned that the girl moved away from California following the assault.
In its advice of a jail sentence, the Sonoma County Probation Division mentioned, “The defendant is statutorily limited from receiving probation and we cannot, even after much effort considering the complexities, favorable, and mitigating factors involved in this case, identify any factors that mark this matter an unusual case for probation consideration.”
Decide Simonds, who diverged from requests and suggestions when giving Colombano probation, referenced psychological well being points and mentioned Colombano’s hashish consumption and stress had been contributing components within the brutal assault, in response to the DA’s workplace.
“Justice was not served in this case,” DA Rodriguez mentioned in a press release Tuesday expressing frustration with the sentence. “This woman will be permanently scarred for the rest of her life, both physically and emotionally. Her daughter and niece’s sense of safety and well-being will never be the same. Mr. Colombano is a menace to public safety, period, and should be sitting in prison.”
