A Brownsville man who severely beat his girlfriend leaving her almost dead has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison after a Cameron County jury found him guilty of the brutal attack.
Amado Martinez Jr. was found guilty Wednesday on one count of aggravated assault of dating partner with a deadly weapon, the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
“By testifying against the defendant and telling her violent tragic story to the jury, the victim not only spoke out for herself but also valiantly stood up for all other women who have been victims of violence at the hands of a partner or alleged loved one,” the news release read.
Martinez’s trial started Monday before 357th state District Judge Juan Magallanes and although Martinez’s attorney filed a motion to try and get a change of venue for the case, his motion was denied and a jury was chosen.
The attack occurred Sept. 15, 2021, and it was so brutal that his 41-year-old girlfriend ended up hospitalized for one week.
The attack happened at the couple’s La Brisas apartment at 2426 Barnard Road in Brownsville. When police arrived at the location, they found the woman lying down on the basketball court.
Martinez Jr. was arrested a little over a month after the alleged attack. A warrant for his arrest had been issued Sept. 16, 2021.
“They made contact with (her) and realized she had been severely beaten,” said Investigator Martin Sandoval, spokesman for the Brownsville Police Department, in an earlier interview.
The woman told police her boyfriend had severely beaten her, and she didn’t know if he was still inside the apartment, Sandoval said.
“When officers went into the apartment, they were able to locate the crime scene that was mostly concentrated in the bedroom,” Sandoval said. “They found blood and things were thrown around like there were signs of a struggle.”
The woman had swollen eyes, a fractured cheek bone and other lacerations to her body.
Sandoval said the woman either crawled or managed some other way to make it to the basketball court where she was found.
The woman told police she had let her boyfriend inside her apartment and that the assault occurred shortly after a conversation between the two, Sandoval said.
