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Alfred Sanchez (Dona Ana County).
A man in New Mexico has been accused of violently attacking his wife after she declined to engage in intimacy with him. The alleged assault included punching, choking, and forcibly striking her head against the ground. Following this, he reportedly issued a disturbing warning to their children about the consequences if she ever left him and remarried.
According to an affidavit cited by Law&Crime, Alfred Sanchez allegedly told the children, “If they were to get a new dad … the new dad was going to rape them.”
The 37-year-old Sanchez is charged with assaulting his wife in their Las Cruces residence while their children were present. The wife informed law enforcement that the violent outburst occurred on Sunday night after she declined his sexual advances.
The affidavit details that Sanchez’s wife was feeling unwell and not up to being intimate, which reportedly enraged Sanchez. She told police he subjected her to verbal abuse for three hours.
The document further claims that Sanchez approached her, aggressively removed her eyeglasses, and threw them to the floor. He allegedly placed a hand around her neck, squeezing tightly while pushing her into a couch. The wife reportedly instructed their five children to retreat to their room.
Sanchez allegedly pushed the woman and pinned her down with his body, punched her repeatedly, and slammed her head into the ground twice. “[The wife] stated that she began to have a panic attack and Mr. Sanchez became afraid, picked her up and said he was ‘sorry’ and ‘I have to go,’ then left,” according to the affidavit.
Sanchez, however, allegedly returned to the home later that night and kicked the front door open to confront his wife again. Cops say she managed to escape and ran to a neighbor’s home.
During the initial assault, the woman was on the phone with her sister-in-law, who told cops that she heard Sanchez saying a number of disturbing things, according to the court documents.
He allegedly told her that if they were to get a divorce, she would have to exchange sex for child support; blamed the woman for the fact that he has been arrested in the past and lost his job; asked her if she wants him to “kill her and the kids;” and repeatedly told the children about what would happen if they got a new dad.
Police say they spoke to some of the children about what happened, along with the sister-in-law. The couple’s 9-year-old daughter stated that “she heard mom and dad yelling at each other, and saw her dad push her mom,” according to the affidavit.
“[The child] began to cry and could not give any further statements,” the document says.
The couple’s 6-year-old allegedly told investigators “that his dad had broken the door and started to fight with his mom.” The child made motions resembling “punching and elbowing when stating his dad hit his mom,” the affidavit alleges.
“[The boy] advised his dad threw his mom on the ground,” it adds.
Sanchez was arrested and charged with aggravated battery against a household member resulting in great bodily harm and four counts of battery against a household member, according to online court records. He was ordered held without bond on Monday after appearing in the Las Cruces Magistrate Court.
Sanchez currently has an open case with the New Mexico Children, Youth & Families Department and has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor in the past. Details surrounding his children and family case are unclear.