TAMPA - A Tampa man with a history of domestic violence has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for fatally stabbing his pregnant girlfriend with a screwdriver.Thirty-nine-year-old Phan To Van Phan plead guilty to second-degree murder in court Wednesday.
He admitted stabbing Sonya Simone in the neck with a screwdriver during an argument in February 2006.
Prosecutor Mark Lewis said, “Phan told police that the couple fought because she had threatened to get an abortion. She was in her first trimester.”
Phan had been found incompetent to stand trial but has since been ruled competent.
He served more than five years in prison in the 1990s after being convicted of torturing his former wife.
-Womenslegal
Source: Associated Press
Tags: domestic violence, Florida, Mark Lewis, Phan To Van Phan, Sonya Simone, Tampa, violence against women
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I spent five years in court on my divorce. During those five years I have seen Judicial Corruption and Judicial Misconduct concerning domestic violence and child custody. Since I did not have adequate accessibility to legal respresentation, I enrolled in a paralegal program and educated myself on how to research law and how to write legal documents in order to represent myself in a court of law. I was treated less than favorably and often was taken advantage of by lawyers who represented my daughters father. As an advocate, I feel it is necessary to share what I have learned to empower all women to stand strong and not to be intimidated by the legal system.
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