Tuesday, August 17, 1999
Executive sentenced in attack of girlfriend
BY DAN HORN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Maynard Holcombe Jr. told a judge Monday that he's already been punished enough for attacking his girlfriend in a bathtub.
He said he has disappointed his family, traumatized his children, lost his career as a successful lawyer and nearly ruined his marriage.
The judge said he still deserves two years in prison.
“No one is above the law,” said Judge John O'Connor, “including you.”
The ruling came despite emotional pleas from several of Mr. Holcombe's friends and family members, including the wife he betrayed.
Mr. Holcombe, a longtime lawyer and bank executive, was charged with trying to drown Kimberly Long in a bathtub at her Mount Washington apartment.
He pleaded guilty to attempted felonious assault last month and faced up to five years in prison.
Mr. Holcombe, 48, told the judge he accepted responsibility but said he never meant to harm Ms. Long. He said he went to her apartment May 30 to end their affair.
But he said she became angry and renewed her threat to tell his wife about the relationship.
“This incident was born out of anger and frustration from her stubborn resistance to let me go,” Mr. Holcombe said. “It never should've happened.”
He said he had a brief affair with Ms. Long in 1997 but was unable to end it because she threatened to tell his wife.
“She asked for money. She asked for attention. She asked for sex,” he told the judge. “If she didn't get them, she said she'd go to Rose.”
Rose, his wife, said she wants her husband to return home so they can work on saving their marriage.
“I love my husband despite what he's done,” she said.
Prosecutors, however, disputed that Ms. Long ever tried to blackmail Mr. Holcombe. Ms. Long said he sang to her, told her he loved her and talked about marrying her.
“I trusted you,” she told him in court Monday. “But you are a man unworthy of anyone's love. You are a very sick man.”
After hearing his sentence, a stunned Mr. Holcombe was led from the courtroom in handcuffs. His wife blew him a kiss as he walked past her.
“I love you,” she shouted.
“I love you, too,” he said.
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