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A woman who stuck a knife into her boyfriend during an argument says she still loves him and will write him letters while in jail.
In the meantime, she’s willing to take anger management counselling.
“I still love him and everything, but my family even tells me it’s an unhealthy relationship right now,” Shonice Marie Tacan told Judge John Combs during sentencing in Brandon court on Monday.
Tacan, 25, pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon, to failing to attend court and to four counts of breaching bail orders.
The stabbing happened at an apartment on the 200-block of 12th Street on Dec. 20.
Crown attorney Garry Rainnie said police were called to a domestic dispute and arrived to find the victim with bite marks to his hands, cuts to his face and a puncture wound to his torso.
He was taken to Brandon hospital where he was rushed into surgery because the knife had made a wound eight inches deep and ruptured his spleen.
The surgery was successful and the victim was expected to make a full recovery.
Back at the apartment, police had arrived to find Tacan throwing up blood.
Blood was on the kitchen floor, on cupboards and the walls.
Police learned that Tacan had been drinking much of the day, and one witness said she had also been “popping” medication.
The victim said he’d argued with Tacan about money and court heard that Tacan grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed him.
Defence lawyer Ryan Fawcett said witnesses present at the time claimed that Tacan had been attacked by the victim and she was defending herself.
But, he said, Tacan acknowledges that she used excessive force.
Rainnie said other witness statements had described Tacan as the aggressor.
At the time of the stabbing, Tacan was under orders to have no contact with the victim but had been living with him and should have been living at a different address.
Even after the stabbing, she breached her bail order when she got caught with her boyfriend at a city motel on Feb. 23. She had been drinking, which was also a violation of her bail.
She also failed to attend court on Dec. 3 in relation to a previous assault charge that was dropped.
Despite the stabbing, Fawcett said that Tacan wishes to pursue her relationship with her boyfriend who is currently in custody too as he’s charged with assaulting Tacan.
Fawcett said that Tacan wishes to write her boyfriend letters while she’s serving her sentence.
Tacan had already spent 24 days in custody by the time she was sentenced, and Combs imposed a total of 12 months more in jail.
He didn’t impose a no-contact order while Tacan serves her sentence, thereby allowing her to write her boyfriend.
“Thank you,” Tacan said in response.
However, when she gets out of jail she’s forbidden from contacting the victim as part of a two-year probation order.
» ihitchen@brandonsun.com
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition March 12, 2013
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In the meantime, she’s willing to take anger management counselling.
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