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Christopher Dellick gets 6 years for cutting wife, trespassing
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Christopher Dellick, 36, of Howland said he was “an innocent man” with a clean record, not guilty of cutting his wife’s leg in their Champion Township home and forcing his way into another house last October.
But his wife, Rebecca Dellick, also spoke, saying her husband had a “bad side” that she discovered after she married him.
Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, who presided over Christopher Dellick’s trial in June, sentenced him to six years in prison on felonious assault and trespassing charges.
“I did not do these heinous crimes,” Christopher Dellick said in his statement to the judge, noting his service in the Marine Corps. “I would never harm anyone’s daughter.”
But Rebecca Dellick said her husband first became threatening in 2012, when they first talked about getting divorced.
“When I did not answer his text messages and over 300 missed calls, he would continue to text or call me until he eventually showed up at my work or home,” she said. “Chris has a very jealous and obsessive personality.”
She added, “I have text messages from Chris stating how he could slice someone open, drink a beer while doodling in their blood.”
Rebecca Dellick said she didn’t want her husband to get a short prison sentence because she feared he would “obsess about how he can come back into my life and hurt me again. But this time it will end in a different way — with my life.”
During the trial, Rebecca said Christopher choked her unconscious three times, then cut her leg while wearing gloves and put the knife in her hands so her DNA would be on it.
Christopher said he came home and found his wife in the bathtub barely conscious with a knife wound to her thigh. He said he stopped the blood with a towel, then took her to a house in Bristol Township to pick up their 5-year-old daughter because Rebecca insisted.