3-12-2019
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A Clark County woman who tried to stab her live-in boyfriend to death with a samurai sword was sentenced to nineteen years in prison.
Police say 31-year-old Emily Javier attacked because she believed he was cheating on her and spent too much time playing video games.
She was sentenced Monday for the March 2018 assault.
Prosecutors asked for a twenty-year sentence saying the amount of premeditation that went into the attack was “huge and probably more than the court has ever seen.”
The Columbian reports her defense asked for an exceptional downward sentence, after a psychologist determined she had PTSD relating to childhood sexual abuse.
Emily Javier, who tried to kill her boyfriend with a samurai sword while he slept because she suspected he was cheating on her, was sentenced this morning in #ClarkWa Superior Court to just more than 19 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/qmGbJ1FxMR
— Jessica Prokop (@JProkop16) March 11, 2019
