Dad pleads guilty to threatening to kill 7-year-old son (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Dad JOHN AKWUBA will be sentenced later this year. Notice that Daddy wasn't convicted of attempted murder. Just one count of felony terroristic threats--even though he was literally STRANGLING this boy. And authorities had to taser him to make him stop beating the child.

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Created: 09/27/2011 5:23 PM
KSTP.com
By: Lauren Radomski

Father Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Kill 7-Year-Old

A St. Paul father has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill his 7-year-old son.

Fifty-two-year-old John Akwuba will be sentenced later this year on one count of felony terroristic threats.

According to a criminal complaint, police were called to a home in the 1900 block of Foxridge Road June 18 on a report a child was being beaten. When officers arrived, they found Akwuba punching a 7-year-old boy in the back of a car while yelling "I'm going to kill you."

Akwuba continued to punch the boy as officers attempted to pull him away, and authorities needed to use "an electronic control device" to get Akwuba away from the child, according to the complaint. The boy later told police his father had choked him and he was frightened because he couldn't breathe.

In an interview with authorities, Akwuba said he was disciplining the boy, but denied hitting or choking him.

A second charge of domestic assault by strangulation, which carries a lesser maximum penalty, was dropped as part of a plea agreement.