A St. Paul man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stabbing a woman and leaving her in a pool of blood in his bathroom earlier last fall.
A Ramsey County District judge sentenced George Dudley Wednesday morning, nearly two months after the 30-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree assault.
In exchange for his plea, prosecutors agreed to drop a rape charge against Dudley so long as he agreed to the 15-year sentence, a term slightly longer than the guideline sentence for first-degree assault convictions.
Dudley also was ordered to register as a predatory offender.
The victim in the case told police she had met Dudley at the Metro Transit center on Lake Street in Minneapolis on Nov. 24, bought alcohol with him at a liquor store and joined him at his home in the 1600 block of Van Buren Avenue in St. Paul, according to court documents.
That’s where he raped her and beat her with his closed fists, she said.
Dudley called police around 2 a.m. that night and said a woman he didn’t know was wounded in his bathroom, according to the criminal complaint.
Police found the woman bleeding from several stab wounds to the right side of her head, chin and shoulder. A large, bloody butcher knife was on the kitchen counter.
The woman appeared to have been lying in her blood for a while, court documents say.
She was rushed into surgery and received a blood transfusion while police questioned Dudley and his three roommates.
Prosecutors opted for a plea deal to “spare the victim of having to recount her victimization at trial,” said Dennis Gerhardstein, spokesman for the Ramsey County attorney’s office.
Dudley has a history of violent crimes, including three convictions for domestic assault, two for violating protection orders and one for fifth-degree assault, according to court records.
In one instance, he threatened and choked a past girlfriend, holding his hands around her neck for about 10 seconds.