Prison For Dad Who Beat Mom With Infant Unconscious, Hit 2 Kids With Hammer

KINGSTON, NY — A horrific case of domestic violence will send a Hudson Valley father to prison for years.

The Ulster County District Attorney's Office announced that 30-year-old Carlos Caal Chub, of Kingston, was sentenced on June 17, to an aggregate term of over seven years in state prison after being convicted in April of several felonies and misdemeanors after a weeklong jury trial.

Chub was sentenced to six years concurrent in state prison on the convictions for second-degree assault and first-degree stalking. For his conviction for third-degree criminal mischief, he was sentenced to one and one third to four years in state prison to run consecutively to the six years. The remaining charges are misdemeanors for which his maximum sentence of one year in jail is required by law to run concurrently to his state prison sentences.

"The investigation, indictment, and prosecution of this case and today's sentence strongly reinforce the message that domestic violence is evil in any community and we all have a responsibility to makesure that those who commit it are held to account," Ulster County District Attorney Emmanuel C. Nneji said.

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According to the district attorney's office, Caal Chub assaulted the victim, the mother of his daughters, at a barbecue on Elmendorf Street on April 20, 2024.

Caal Chub punched the woman twice in the head after she had intervened in a separate dispute between a different couple at the barbecue, prosecutors said, before taking the woman's phone when he saw her trying to call police.

The woman then left the event to get her belongings from the couple's shared home on Robert Street in Ulster, officials said. Prosecutors said he forced entry through a basement door with a hammer, and then punched the woman while she held their infant, rendering her unconscious.

Caal Chub also "shoved and hit their two oldest children with a hammer," the district attorney's office said.

The woman and children fled and sought help from employees at the Bowery Dugout on Ulster Avenue, according to the district attorney’s office.

Law enforcement quickly found and arrested Caal Chub, who was indicted in April by an Ulster County Grand Jury.

"Today's sentence should send a message to everyone that domestic violence, especially acts committed in the presence of children, will be punished," Senior Assistant District Attorney Luba Reznikova, who also serves as the Director of the Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Task Force, said.