Former prison guard who tied up his wife, stabbed her 23 times, and tried to suffocate her with a belt pleads guilty to attempted murder after the victim SURVIVED
By Snejana Farberov
Daily Mail
April 17, 2019
A former corrections officer in Maryland has pleaded guilty to attempted murder in a brutal attack on his wife, who survived despite being stabbed more than 20 times and nearly suffocated with a bag and a belt.
The state attorney's office described the gruesome crime on Monday while announcing the plea by 46-year-old Armando Quispe Rodriguez.
Prosecutors say on March 23, 2018, Keyia Rodriguez, then aged 31, was asleep inside her family's home in the 2500 block of Archway Lane, Bryans Road, when her husband began hitting and stabbing her.
The mother-of-two, who also worked as corrections officer, tried to escape but her husband handcuffed her to a railing in the basement and bound her ankles.
Rodriguez then proceeded to stab his wife a total of 23 times, using a hunting knife with a five-inch blade, after which he placed a plastic bag over her head and tightened a belt around her neck in an attempt to suffocate her.
Keyia didn't die, however, and Armando Rodriguez eventually called 911 to report the hours-long attack on his wife, calling it a 'domestic situation.'
Officers who responded to the couple's home were met outside by the husband, who had cuts on both of his hands.
When they entered the residence, they found the wife incoherent and lying in a pool of her own blood in the basement.
The woman was airlifted to the Prince George's County Shock Trauma Unit, where she was treated for her many stab wounds and a punctured lung.
In April 2018, Keyia shared a photo of herself with her two daughters showing her scars on a GoFundMe page created by her cousin.
'I am able to talk...walk {slow} and it's by His grace!!! I am a MIRACLE,' she wrote.
Other graphic photos shared on the fundraising site depict multiple knife wounds on the victim's back that had been closed with medical staples.
Doctors also had to saw a portion of her right ear that had been partially sliced off, as one of the images shows.
Authorities never revealed a motive behind the brutal assault on Keyia Rodriguez.
Armando Rodriguez agreed to the plea deal a week before he was scheduled to go to trial. He faces life in prison when he is sentenced on August 8.
2 comments:
I think he just wanted to torture her. He succeeded. Since this no good, low down, sorry excuse for a human being works in the system, he will never be placed in general population.
How can you be that incompetent?
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