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This page is dedicated to my sister Juanita Montelongo who is no longer with us, but she is always in our thoughts and prayers. I made this page to raise awareness about Domestic Violence. My sister was a victim...no one should ever have to go through what my sister went through. LOVE NEVER HURTS!!! -Savina MontelongoWarrant reveals victim's final hoursThis story was published 3/15/2002By Kristin M. Kraemer Herald staff writerDelonde Pleasant was the "man of the house" with a history of abusing and degrading his live-in girlfriend in private and in front of family and friends, according to court documents.A search warrant filed Thursday in Franklin County Superior Court said Pleasant, 23, snubbed attempts by his younger brother and a cousin to stop punching and kicking Juanita Montelongo early March 3.Then, when he noticed his 20-year-old girlfriend was unresponsive, Pleasant and later his mother tried reviving her over the course of an hour before an ambulance was called, Pasco Detective Joe Nunez wrote in the search warrant.Montelongo was pronounced dead at Kennewick General Hospital of multiple blows to the head.Pleasant has pleaded innocent to second-degree murder charges in his girlfriend's death and is scheduled for trial May 1. He is being held in the Franklin County jail on $500,000 bail.Pasco police were called at 6:05 a.m. March 3 to a "violent domestic" at the 514 N. Eighth Ave. home of Pleasant and Montelongo.Pleasant's younger brother Randy told police he was asleep in one of the bedrooms about three hours earlier when he heard Pleasant yelling at Montelongo. Randy Pleasant told Officer Dale Blackledge that he woke up to find Pleasant beating Montelongo and cousin Jamar Sims trying to stop the assault.Sims, during an interview with Blackledge, said he and Pleasant went out after 1:30 a.m. When they returned to the Eighth Avenue home, Pleasant and Montelongo got into an argument in the master bedroom, and attempts to calm down his cousin were rebuffed, the court document said."Jamar stated that Delonde was the man of the house so he responded to his request and returned to the living room," the document said. When he tried to stop the fight a second time, Pleasant walked Sims out to his car and told him, "I don't want you to keep getting into my business."Sims said he went to the store.Randy Pleasant claimed that after Sims left, his brother continued "kicking her on her head as well as her back while yelling, 'I'm going to kill you.'""Juanita, at that time, was pleading for Delonde to stop the assault telling him that she loved him," the search warrant said.Pleasant quit beating her a few minutes later when he saw she was unresponsive and asked his brother to get some water while he tried cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Randy Pleasant told police. None of it worked, he said.Randy Pleasant said he left the house on foot and met up with Sims, who drove them to Randy's mother's home so Randy could tell her what happened. Sims also told Ianthia Pleasant about the fight.During her interview with Nunez, Ianthia Pleasant said she waited about one hour because she was afraid of what Delonde had done. Then her son knocked on the door, admitted to beating up his girlfriend and said, "Mom, I think I hurt her, I think I hurt her, I think I hurt her," Ianthia Pleasant told police.Ianthia Pleasant said she has first-aid training so she went with her son back to his home to try and revive Montelongo. When they weren't having any success, she sent Delonade Pleasant to get his aunt, Patricia Wesson.Wesson, who said her nephew "had a crazed look in his eyes," went to the home to find Montelongo had no pulse and her hands were turning blue, Nunez wrote. She repeatedly told Delonde Pleasant to call 911, but then did it herself after he didn't respond, the document said.Pleasant told his mother and aunt, "I need to get out of here," and paced for a few minutes before going out the front door, Wesson said in the document· That is when police arrived.When Officer Raul Cavazos pulled up at the house, Pleasant ran from a 1985 Chevy Caprice and went indoors, the court document said. The car reportedly had its engine running and lights on, and the driver's door was open.Police later searched the Chevy Caprice and found an Adidas bag with two semiautomatic pistols, a revolver and two ammunition magazines, one of which was empty.Officer Jon Baker guarded the front door while Cavazos went around to the back. Cavazos found Pleasant about to leave through the back door, but Pleasant saw the officer and locked the door, the document said. Cavazos twice ordered Pleasant to open the door but Pleasant refused, so Cavazos kicked it in and took Pleasant into custody, the document said.Pleasant's mother was holding Montelongo, who had "numerous bruises on her face and arms and was completely unresponsive," Nunez wrote.Pleasant told family members that he came home after a night of drinking, and "'Juanita had started tripping on him.' He said that he had then lost it and assaulted her," Nunez wrote in the search warrant.Nunez said Pleasant admitted while in custody to assaulting Montelongo but claimed he couldn't remember how many times he hit her.Police gathered blood-stained clothing and linens, clumps of hair, a glass table top and a stun gun in the house.Angel Montelongo told police three days after her sister's death that the family knew Pleasant had been severely assaulting Juanita Montelongo for more than a year but couldn't convince her to leave for good. Pleasant allegedly used their 2-year-old son XinCyre to lure her back to him, Angel Montelongo said. On one occasion when Juanita Montelongo left Pleasant, he reportedly made threats to get her to come home. Montelongo then asked a relative to kill Pleasant but was turned down, the court document said. Within two days she returned to Pleasant.Benton County Coroner Floyd Johnson previously said Montelongo's autopsy revealed evidence of old injuries from domestic disputes, including healed-over broken ribs. Angel Montelongo told police she'd heard that one day a friend stopped by to visit Pleasant and noticed something moving under the master bed. "Delonde then bragged that it was Juanita and that he had ordered her there," the document said.Pleasant also allegedly made Juanita Montelongo clean the house while naked and would videotape it to degrade her, Angel Montelongo told police. A day after the killing, one of Juanita Montelongo's aunts found two videotapes in the Eighth Avenue house and gave them to Nunez, saying she'd heard Pleasant would film how he treated Montelongo.
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Domestic Violence is a Serious, Widespread Social Problem in America: The FactsEstimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year1 to three million women who are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend per year. Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Nearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives, according to a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey. Nearly 25 percent of American women report being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date at some time in their lifetime, according to the National Violence Against Women Survey, conducted from November 1995 to May 1996. Thirty percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year. In the year 2001, more than half a million American women (588,490 women) were victims of nonfatal violence committed by an intimate partner. Intimate partner violence is primarily a crime against women. In 2001, women accounted for 85 percent of the victims of intimate partner violence (588,490 total) and men accounted for approximately 15 percent of the victims (103,220 total). While women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes overall, women are five to eight times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner. In 2001, intimate partner violence made up 20 percent of violent crime against women. The same year, intimate partners committed three percent of all violent crime against men. As many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy. Women of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate. Male violence against women does much more damage than female violence against men; women are much more likely to be injured than men. The most rapid growth in domestic relations caseloads is occurring in domestic violence filings. Between 1993 and 1995, 18 of 32 states with three year filing figures reported an increase of 20 percent or more. Women are seven to 14 times more likely than men to report suffering severe physical assaults from an intimate partner.Domestic Homicides:On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner. The same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner. Women are much more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner. In 2000, intimate partner homicides accounted for 33.5 percent of the murders of women and less than four percent of the murders of men. Pregnant and recently pregnant women are more likely to be victims of homicide than to die of any other cause , and evidence exists that a significant proportion of all female homicide victims are killed by their intimate partners. Research suggests that injury related deaths, including homicide and suicide, account for approximately one-third of all maternal mortality cases, while medical reasons make up the rest. But, homicide is the leading cause of death overall for pregnant women, followed by cancer, acute and chronic respiratory conditions, motor vehicle collisions and drug overdose, peripartum and postpartum cardiomyopthy, and suicide.Health Issues:The health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking and homicide committed by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year. Of that amount, nearly $4.1 billion are for direct medical and mental health care services, and nearly $1.8 billion are for the indirect costs of lost productivity or wages. About half of all female victims of intimate violence report an injury of some type, and about 20 percent of them seek medical assistance. Thirty-seven percent of women who sought treatment in emergency rooms for violence-related injuries in 1994 were injured by a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend.Domestic Violence and Youth:Approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner. Eight percent of high school age girls said “yes” when asked if “a boyfriend or date has ever forced sex against your will.” Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend. During the 1996-1997 school year, there were an estimated 4,000 incidents of rape or other types of sexual assault in public schools across the country. Domestic Violence and Children:In a national survey of more than 6,000 American families, 50 percent of the men who frequently assaulted their wives also frequently abused their children. Slightly more than half of female victims of intimate violence live in households with children under age 12.29 Studies suggest that between 3.3 - 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually. Rape:Three in four women (76 percent) who reported they had been raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 said that a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, or date committed the assault. One in five (21 percent) women reported she had been raped or physically or sexually assaulted in her lifetime. Nearly one-fifth of women (18 percent) reported experiencing a completed or attempted rape at some time in their lives; one in 33 men (three percent) reported experiencing a completed or attempted rape at some time in their lives. In 2000, 48 percent of the rapes/sexual assaults committed against people age 12 and over were reported to the police. In 2001, 41,740 women were victims of rape/sexual assault committed by an intimate partner. Rapes/sexual assaults committed by strangers are more likely to be reported to the police than rapes/sexual assaults committed by “nonstrangers,” including intimate partners, other relatives and friends or acquaintances. Between 1992 and 2000, 41 percent of the rapes/sexual assaults committed by strangers were reported to the police. During the same time period, 24 percent of the rapes/sexual assaults committed by an intimate were reported.Stalking:Annually in the United States, 503,485 women are stalked by an intimate partner. Seventy-eight percent of stalking victims are women. Women are significantly more likely than men (60 percent and 30 percent, respectively) to be stalked by intimate partners. Eighty percent of women who are stalked by former husbands are physically assaulted by that partner and 30 percent are sexually assaulted by that partner.1U.S. Department of Justice, Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, March 1998 2The Commonwealth Fund, Health Concerns Across a Woman’s Lifespan: 1998 Survey of Women’s Health, May 1999 3Heise, L., Ellsberg, M. and Gottemoeller, M. Ending Violence Against Women. 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