KINGMAN – Her chilling, blood-curdling screams pierced a Mohave County courtroom as a Kingman woman’s attacker was sent to the Arizona Department of Corrections Thursday. Their home security surveillance system captured 43-year-old Brian Crossland’s brutal assault of his long-time partner in their Kingman home on Golf Drive on May 13.
Crossland can be seen striking the woman, holding a knife to her throat and yelling at her during the near nine-minute video segment played during the sentencing hearing before Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert. “I think the video speaks for itself,” said Deputy Mohave County Attorney Reed Weisberg.
The victim reportedly tried to contact police during the ordeal. “Who was it? Who was that,” Crossland repeatedly screamed at her, while asking who she tried to call on her cell phone.
“Please don’t. Please stop,” the victim said over and over.
A Victim’s Witness advocate read the woman’s statement to the court into the record. She claimed Crossland spent twelve years mastering his physical, psychological and sexual manipulation and abuse of her, but that it will stop with his trip to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
“I am sorry for what happened and I don’t think it would have happened were it not for chemicals, drugs and alcohol,” Crossland said. “I am terribly sorry for the pain I’ve caused the victim and her family.”
Crossland said it will be easier for him to be sober while incarcerated and that he hopes for productive life following prison. He was convicted of aggravated assault in a plea agreement mandating a 10.5-year prison sentence.
Dave Hawkins
If that were the first time and the first woman, that sentence may be fine! BUT IT’S NOT AND THAT SENTENCE SHOULD BE DOUBLED WITH “NO” CHANCE OF PAROLE!