MESSAGE FROM PROSECUTOR SHERRI BEVAN WALSH

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Ibn-Ford Pleads to Domestic Violence Charges

(December 6, 2011… Akron) … Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh announced today that Khalid Ibn-Ford, 50, of E. Miller Avenue in Akron, pleaded guilty this morning to Gross Sexual Imposition, a fourth-degree felony, and two counts of Domestic Violence, both third-degree felonies.

On June 18, Ibn-Ford came home drunk to the hotel at which he and his female victim were staying and demanded sex. When she refused, Ibn-Ford threatened to hurt her in front of her daughter and niece, who were staying in the same room. He then grabbed the woman around the neck and sexually assaulted her twice while the children slept a few feet away in the other bed.

The next day Ibn-Ford and the victim got into a verbal argument before leaving the hotel. He “disciplined” her by beating her with a belt while the children were out of the room. The victim, Ibn-Ford and the children then left the hotel.

After dropping off Ibn-Ford at his house, the victim passed out at a gas station bathroom from complications from an underlying medical condition and was taken to the hospital. Ibn-Ford went to the hospital after visiting hours to see how the victim was doing. While there he got into another altercation with the victim and pushed her into a doorframe.

Judge Paul Gallagher will sentence Ibn-Ford on January 9, 2012 at 9 a.m.

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