By Josh Mitchell
Editor
River Mississippi News
revrsethecurrent@outlook.com
MISSISSIPPI— A third violent assault against an intimate partner will send a Mississippi man to prison for five years, federal officials announced this week.
Court documents show that Lee Garrick McMillan, 31, admitted to assaulting his wife in Pearl River on the Mississippi Choctaw Reservation on May 20, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Mississippi said in a news release Wednesday.
(National Domestic Violence Hotline)
The National Network to End Domestic Violence says American Indian women who live on Indian reservations suffer domestic violence and physical assault at rates far higher than other women, the release adds.
The Choctaw Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin J. Payne and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian K. Burns prosecuted the matter.
