A convicted felon who has served four sentences in state prison is headed back to prison after pleading guilty to assaulting his wife.
Darron Jerome Jones, 38, of Mableton, was sentenced to 20 years, with 10 years to serve in custody and the rest on probation after his indictment on charges of aggravated assault, rape, and firearms-possession charges, the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office said.
Jones threatened his wife with an illegal, sawed-off shotgun at their Mableton apartment last October, according to the DA’s office. His wife told investigators he had been violent with her for at least a year, and even though she was ill with kidney disease and vomiting, he repeatedly made her have sex with him, DA Vic Reynolds said.
“Married or not, sex against a woman’s will is rape, and this case is an example of how seriously we take domestic violence crimes and the various power and control tactics — physical, mental or sexual — abusers impose on their victims,” Sherwin Figueroa, assistant district attorney, said in an emailed statement. “This defendant was facing a life sentence on the rape charge, and that is what made him accept responsibility for his actions and plead guilty to aggravated assault.”
Jones was arrested in October and has been held since then without bond in the Cobb County jail, booking records showed.
From July 1997 until January 2011, Jones served four times in state prisons, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. In January 2011, he was released from prison after serving just over a year following a family battery conviction, records showed.
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