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Serial Domestic Abuse Offender Found Guilty In King County

Most of those charged with domestic abuse do not have a long history of similar charges. But recently King County arrested and charged a serial domestic abuse offender after years of violence toward the women in his life.

The violence against his wife and the mother of his two children allegedly started in 2000, with a string of physical and emotional abuse even while she was pregnant. The woman put up with the abuse, not reporting it or else recanting her testimony, for several years before finally filing a complaint.

The man, Dion Earl Johnson, was featured on “Washington’s Most Wanted.” Not long after he was charged with five different felony violations of a domestic violence court order, felony domestic violence harassment, two counts of tampering with a witness, and bail jumping. The domestic violence assaults included a November 2008 incident at a doctor’s office when his wife was six months pregnant. A second assault took place at a bar in February of last year. During the latter assault, the man also threatened to kill the family’s children.

In addition to his felony charges, he was also found guilty of misdemeanors including violating a no-contact order and second-degree assault.

A King County Superior Court jury convicted him of all domestic violence charges this week. According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer, he is facing up to ten years in prison for his domestic abuse charges.

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