Monday, August 31, 2015
TOLEDO (AP) — A judge in Ohio has sentenced a man to six months at a correctional treatment center for biting off part of a man’s ear after finding him in bed with his wife.
Forty-year-old Virgil Bates III of Toledo must also pay the victim $5,600 and spend four months in a work-release program. He was sentenced Monday in Toledo after pleading guilty to aggravated assault earlier this month.
Authorities say Bates and the victim fought in June when Bates confronted his wife and her lover. Bates told a judge the man bit his arm during the fight, prompting him to bite back. The missing ear part couldn’t be reattached.
His attorney says it’s a fair outcome. Bates and his wife had been separated two years but have since reconciled.