A Woodstock man was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in prison after hitting a woman in the head with a hatchet.
Steven Torres, 47, of the 300 block of Meadowsedge Drive in Woodstock, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single Class 2 felony count of domestic battery, court records show.
Court records filed in McHenry County Circuit Court show Torres was sentenced to three years and six months in the Illinois Department of Corrections as part of the approved plea deal.
In addition, Torres is required to spend four years on mandatory supervised release when he is released from prison.
He will receive 254 days of credit for time already served in the McHenry County jail, court records show.
This is the fourth time Torres has been convicted of similar domestic battery charges, court records show.
He was previously convicted in McHenry County of the same felony charges in 2018, 2020, and 2021, court records show.
He was also convicted of misdemeanor counts of domestic battery in Kane County in 20o3 and in McHenry County in 2018, court records show.
McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputies were called on August 24 by the victim, who claimed Torres struck her in the head with a hatchet, then told her to go to sleep.
The victim went to a neighbor’s house after Torres took away her cell phone, court records show.
Torres was ordered detained in county jail following his arrest, and was told not to have any contact with the victim.
However, Torres was charged with communicating with a witness in March after he sent four, multi-page letters to the victim between October and December, court records show.
Additional Class 2 felony charges of domestic battery and aggravated domestic battery were dropped in exchange for the plea deal, court records show.