Man Jailed For Torturing Wife With Box Cutter In Front Of Kids

A Texas man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to torturing his wife for three days in 2019.

Phillip Edward Bowers, 34, was sentenced to 30 years after pleading guilty to multiple charges of assault in Montgomery district county court.

He pleaded guilty Friday to one charge of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury with a deadly weapon, one charge of family violence and one charge of aggravated kidnapping. A jury sentenced him to serve concurrently each of these charges that carried a term of five years.

The investigation started in March 2019, when medics of Montgomery County District Hospital responded to a woman in distress. They found the severely injured victim in the back room of an apartment in New Caney, reported ABC13.

Investigators said that the woman had been found alone in the bedroom in a condition in which she could not even provide information about the assault. The injuries on her body indicated prolonged torture for several days.

The witnesses at the crime scene told the investigators that Bowers had left the house with their three children shortly before the medics arrived. He was later arrested at a nearby store.

The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and survived after undergoing multiple reconstructive surgeries and treatment. The doctors also confirmed that the victim had previously sustained injuries from past assaults.

According to the investigators, Bowers tortured his wife for three days while his children witnessed the horror. They also found that he used various weapons such as steel-toed boots, a large flashlight, a box cutter and a vinyl jump rope to assault the victim, reported the ABC affiliated channel KVUE.

"The things that happened in that house were the things of which horror movies were made," said prosecutor Echo Hutson. He said that the injuries on the victim were more severe than what he had seen on many murder victims. He also thanked the children who showed courage by speaking up about the abuse they had witnessed.

As Bowers pleaded guilty, the prosecutor said that justice was already served for the victim and the children as they wouldn't need to face the abuser in court and relive their nightmare.

"This is absolutely the worst assault I have investigated with a surviving victim in my career," detective Brandon Bartoskewitz said. He also said that the sentence represents justice for the victim and her children.