Stephenville man gets 20 months for assault
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | 5:59 PM NT
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A man from the western Newfoundland community of Stephenville with a violent criminal history was sentenced to 20 months in prison Wednesday for assaulting a woman.
Matthew Francis O'Quinn, 32, pleaded guilty in provincial court in Stephenville to eight charges after assaulting a woman this summer while he was on the Port au Port Peninsula.
On one occasion O'Quinn used a sharp sea shell while he was assaulting the woman.
O'Quinn pleaded guilty to two assault charges and one count of assault with a weapon along with breaching probation and other court orders. He was also sentenced to three years on probation.
Nine charges were dropped, including a sexual assault charge and a charge of confining the woman.
A CBC News investigation in September found that O'Quinn has had a long history of run-ins with the police and has been convicted of committing violent crimes.
A National Parole Board ruling in 2006 — in which O'Quinn was denied parole — found that he was considered a high risk to reoffend with violence.
He was convicted after confining a woman to a tent for 30 days in 2004 and beating her with a tree branch.
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