An Allentown man is headed to state prison after a brutal, videotaped beating of his pregnant partner outside a Hatfield Township apartment, an attack that stunned even veteran investigators.
A Montgomery County judge on Tuesday sentenced 37-year-old Raymond Bautista to four to six years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and aggravated assault of an unborn child. Prosecutors say the early-morning ambush, caught on a doorbell camera, left the victim, who was about 15 weeks pregnant, with nasal bone fractures, cuts and bruises. Police said the assault was sudden and unprovoked as she left for work. The judge also ordered Bautista into domestic-violence counseling and barred him from any contact with the victim.
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