SUPERIOR Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho has imposed a $5,000 cash bail on Ignacio C. Manglona who has been charged with assault and battery and disturbing the peace.
Manglona, 34, is accused of punching his girlfriend in the face and pouring scalding soup on her right leg.
At the hearing, Manglona was represented by Assistant Public Defender Tyler Scott while Chief Prosecutor Chester Hinds appeared for the government.
Judge Camacho remanded Manglona to the custody of the Department of Corrections after the hearing and ordered him to return to court on Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. for a preliminary hearing, and on Nov. 7 at 9 a.m. for an arraignment.
According to the complaint, on Oct. 26, 2022, at around 1:59 p.m., the Department of Public Safety central office received a disturbing the peace complaint.
Manglona’s girlfriend told responding police officers that her boyfriend punched her in the face and spilled hot soup on her right leg.
The victim told police that on the evening of Oct. 25, Manglona was mad at her calling her “slut” and “b***h.” She said she did not respond or react but was hurt. She said as she was standing by the kitchen, Manglona approached her and punched her.
She said she sat on the floor and cried while covering her left eye with her left hand. Later, she said Manglona instructed her to move her hand from her face and apologized saying, “I’m sorry I didn’t want to do this to you. Come to bed and rest. Don’t touch your eye.”
The next day, while she was preparing lunch, Manglona told her to cook rice, but she was on a phone call with her grandmother.
She told police that she had prepared the rice to cook, but the soup was already cooked.
She said Manglona got mad at her and instructed her to hang up the phone. She said Manglona came to the kitchen and angrily asked: “Do you want me to spill the soup on you?”
She replied, “No, it’s hot.”
But she said Manglona tilted and spilled the hot soup on her right leg.
She said Manglona later apologized after seeing her right leg was red. She said she didn’t say anything to Manglona because she was in so much pain.
Before she went to her grandmother’s house, Manglona told her not to say anything to her family about him physically abusing her because her family might put him in jail.
She told police that “she feels like a prisoner and that she’s scared of Manglona.”
She said he told her “that if she ever runs away from him he’ll look for her and hurt her.”
According to the victim, Manglona “punches her back, head, chest, and pulls her hair using his right hand every time he’s mad.”
