A 30 year old Alexandria man, charged with kidnapping and assaulting his ex-girl friend in March got a ten year sentence in DeKalb County Criminal Court last Wednesday.
Judge David Patterson sentenced Brian Gadbois after he entered a guilty plea to charges of aggravated kidnapping and domestic assault. Gadbois is to serve at least 85% of his ten year sentence before his release eligibility date on the kidnapping charge. He also received a sentence of 11 months and 29 days to serve in the domestic assault case. Both sentences are to run concurrently with each other and concurrently with a Rutherford County sentence against him. He was given jail credit from April 4, 2010 to November 28, 2011
Alexandria Police Chief Mark Collins told WJLE that Gadbois lived with his ex-girlfriend, who was six months pregnant at the time, and their four children, ages nine months, nineteen months, three years, and twelve years, at a residence at 143 Measles Lane.
Described as a very jealous and abusive man, Chief Collins said that on the night of March 17, Gadbois allegedly became upset when the woman arrived home from work a few minutes late. He tied her to the footboard of a bed in the home and assaulted her repeatedly throughout the night. She was kicked, punched, and slapped. The woman was made to sit on the floor at the foot of the bed, partially clothed, with her hands tied to the footboard. The couple’s four children were in the home at the time.
The next morning Gadbois gathered up all the children and left to take one of the kids to meet a school bus at an area bus stop. While he was gone the woman untied herself and escaped from the home, hiding in the woods. She later made her way to city hall and reported the incident to authorities.
When Gadbois returned home and found the woman had left, he took the children to their grandparent’s home and he fled. He was arrested a few days later in Rutherford County.
Chief Collins said his department charged Gadbois in the case. At the time, Gadbois was already facing similar offenses in Rutherford County.
The woman and her children have now moved to another county.
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