GUILTY PLEA TO SLASHING WIFE’S THROAT
Francisco Sanabria age 55, of Monroe Township, pleaded guilty Monday (4/16) to aggravated assault/attempting to cause serious bodily injury a year ago in a 4/20/17 attack at home that left his wife with two slash wounds to her throat.
In a negotiated plea to the second-degree offense, Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Temperance Williamson will recommend that Sanabria be sentenced to ten years in New Jersey state prison. New Jersey’s No Early Release Act applies to the sentence, making Sanabria ineligible for parole until he serves 85 percent of his prison term.
Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson accepted the plea and scheduled sentencing for 6/1/18. On 4/20/17, Monroe Township police were summoned to the Sanabria home by the defendant for a report of an unconscious person. Officers found his wife on a bathroom floor with deep lacerations to her neck. A carpet knife with blood on it was recovered in the residence. Sanabria’s wife described an argument and the attack to investigators while hospitalized.