MICHAEL KELLY The Marietta Times Jason Dick, of Marietta, is led out of Washington County Common Pleas Court Wednesday after being sentenced to 30 months in prison. Dick pleaded guilty to kidnapping and felonious assault for detaining and beating up a Marietta woman in December 2017.

The injuries, which included fractured facial bones and deep wounds, may have healed, but her life more than a year later is still shattered from the beating and psychological trauma inflicted by Jason Dick, a Marietta woman told Judge Randall Burnworth at a sentencing hearing Wednesday morning for the man who put her in the hospital.

Jason Dick, 40, of Marietta, entered pleas of guilty to abduction and felonious assault charges related to the events of Dec. 1, 2017. He and the woman had been living together in her apartment for several months. Their relationship had become increasingly acrimonious and on the dates of the crimes, he locked her into the bedroom of the Marietta apartment, destroyed property in it and vandalized it, and later hurled heavy tools, including a hammer, at her, then struck her in the face.

Dick, according to court records, drove her to Marietta Memorial Hospital and left after being questioned by the staff there. He was later arrested in Wood County, W.Va., after attempting to evade police.

The woman submitted a nine-page letter to the court as a victim impact statement and read from it at the sentencing Wednesday.

She said she had attempted to break up with Dick and move out after a relationship of several months.

“He held me for several hours in the apartment. I weigh 110 pounds and he is immensely bigger and stronger than I am. He held me down on the bed for 30 minutes, then he locked me in the bedroom and began destroying things and vandalizing the apartment. He threw mechanic’s tools at me in a fit of uncontrollable rage and anger. The tools hit the wall, then he hit me. There was blood gushing out of my mouth,” she said. While driving her to the hospital, she said, Dick coached her on a fabricated story to explain the injuries, and she agreed simply so she could get to medical care.

Dick told the staff at the hospital he was going outside to call family members, and then left and didn’t come back, she said.

“I had large, deep wounds, a cut on my eye socket, broken bones, broken teeth, bruising,” she said.

Plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery were needed to repair the injuries, she said, but she still suffers from symptoms of post-traumatic stress, severe social anxiety and nightmares.

“I can’t work, I am unable to do things I used to do, I am in therapy twice a week,” she said. “The physical abuse, the psychological abuse, there were countless incidents, and these charges are only two of those. I am in a constant state of fear, anxiety and depression.”

Dick, she said, is “a sick man and a predator. It’s not safe to have him on the streets. I thought at first he was my true love, but he was a nightmare. I’ve never seen evil up close until I saw Jason Dick. I fear for any woman who meets him. He intended to harm me, he intended to kill me.”

She concluded by asking the judge to impose the maximum sentence, which would have been 36 months.

Dick’s attorney, Rolf Baumgartel, said his client has shown remorse by entering guilty pleas on the two charges.

“He didn’t want to put her through a trial,” Baumgartel said.

Dick stated that he had not intended harm.

“There’s no way I had the intention of hitting her with that hammer,” he said. “The worst thing is, I was in love. If it wasn’t for that drug relapse … I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again. I don’t mind the maximum. I’ll make restitution.”

Burnworth said the question of restitution would best be decided as a civil matter.

“This is an egregious crime, as we heard in the victim impact statement,” he said. “You have a very, very long history of criminal, violent, anti-social behavior.”

Burnworth sentenced Dick to 30 months in prison on the abduction count and 17 months on the felonious assault count, to be served concurrently. The sentences are both to be served consecutively to Dick’s sentence in West Virginia, which assistant prosecutor Daniel Silwani said was one to five years.

The West Virginia case is related to Dick’s attempt to evade capture by police, which resulted in a harrowing chase in Parkersburg.

Dick will also be subject to three years of community control after he is released.