PORTLAND, Ore. (TCN) — A man will spend a decade behind bars for striking his young son so hard that “the child nearly died.”
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced that on Aug. 28, a judge sentenced Joseph Washington to 10 years in prison after a jury previously convicted him of first-degree assault, third-degree assault, and first-degree criminal mistreatment. Prosecutors said he has previous convictions, including strangulation constituting domestic violence and fourth-degree assault constituting domestic violence in 2023, as well as sex trafficking of children or by force-fraud or coercion in 2010 and other assault convictions.
According to prosecutors, the 20-month-old victim’s mother said she and the defendant were no longer together, but she would sometimes have him watch their son while she was at work…