Ind. gets 9 years for beating pregnant girlfriend

COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — A south-central Indiana man has been sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to beating his pregnant girlfriend and holding a knife to her throat.

Daniels S. Leonard was sentenced Monday by a Bartholomew County judge who accepted the 28-year-old Columbus man's guilty pleas to criminal confinement, battery to a pregnant woman and several other charges.

The Republic reports (http://bit.ly/Y5wYMM ) the judge who sentenced Leonard noted his criminal history, repeated probation violations and the nature of the crimes.

Court documents state that Leonard repeatedly beat his girlfriend over a 26-hour period in December 2011 and threatened to kill her and her 7-year-old son.

Those attacks included holding a knife to her throat in a car after he became enraged because he could not find his cellphone.

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Information from: The Republic, http://www.therepublic.com/