REDWOOD CITY (KRON) — A Stanford University Ph.D student will serve a year in prison for beating his ex-girlfriend so severely that she required surgery.
According to prosecutors Yishun Dong, 33, of Mountain View, was in an engineering graduate program with the victim.
According to the district attorney’s office, they dated for a year and broke up last June, But on July 19, Dong went to her Menlo Park home and angrily hit her six to seven times, fracturing her eye socket and requiring surgery, prosecutors said.
When taken to the hospital, the victim denied that Dong had hit her, but hospital staff called police anyway, prosecutors said.
Dong pleaded no contest in February to felony domestic violence causing great bodily injury on the condition that he serve no state prison time.
Judge Leland Davis handed down the year sentence Tuesday. Once released, Dong will serve three years’ probation as well, prosecutors said.
Along with jail time, Dong will have to serve 104 hours of domestic violence counseling and perform 30 hours of community service.
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