Bluffs man faces more than 10-years for Domestic abuse & kidnapping
May 28th, 2015 by Ric Hanson
A Council Bluffs man could spend more than a decade behind bars on kidnapping charges. According to the Daily NonPareil, 28-year old Joshua R. Jackson was sentenced to 15 years on charges of domestic strangulation and two counts of willful cause of bodily injury as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Jon Jacobmeier, chief deputy Pottawattamie County Attorney, says each charge carries a five-year sentence, and the agreement called for the terms to be served consecutively. There is no mandatory minimum amount of time Jackson must serve, according to Jacobmeier.
Jackson was accused of holding his 20-year-old girlfriend hostage from Dec. 17-19, beating her with his fists and feet, pulling her hair out in clumps, biting her multiple times, whipping her with an electrical cord and more, according to police. The woman eventually broke free, but not before suffering a broken nose, broken eye socket, perforated eardrum, retinal detachment, concussion, pancreatic contusion and burn marks.
Jackson had originally been charged with first-degree kidnapping, which carries a sentence of life in prison without parole.
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