Superior Court Associate Judge David Wiseman raised the cash bail imposed on Melvin Babauta Cabrera to $25,000 from the recommended $10,000.
Police said the incident happened on Sunday afternoon at a residence in Chalan Kanoa.
The victim informed Melvin that she was leaving him. Minutes later, the children saw Cabrera choking their mother and was about to strike her with a machete.
A male relative of the victim was able to grab Cabrera’s machete, but sustained a minor cut in his left palm as a result of the struggle for the machete, police said.
