Quakertown Man Gets 5-15 Years In Prison For Hitting Ex-Girlfriend With Aluminum Bat: DA

QUAKERTOWN, PA — A Quakertown man was sentenced to between five and 15 years in prison for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said in a news release Tuesday.

A Domestic Violence Investigation found Roland Blake Ghiloni had two prior convictions for domestic abuse. The DA said one conviction was for abuse against a prior girlfriend, and another was for abuse of the defendant's son.

The investigation began Jan. 30 of last year at around 10 p.m., when the Quakertown Police Department was dispatched to the Bush House Hotel to investigate an assault.

Officers found the defendant, Ghiloni's girlfriend at the time, bleeding from the top of her head with her left eyebrow swollen and bleeding. Police said she told them she was feeling dizzy after being assaulted by Ghiloni.

She was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in Upper Bucks, where she needed stitches above her eyebrow and staples in her head, the DA said. A news release said she was also treated for a concussion.

She then told police that Ghiloni struck her in the head with an aluminum baseball bat during an argument. She was able to block a second strike he attempted, the news release said.

Then, as she was escaping from the room at the Bush House, he struck her again in the back of the head, the DA's office said.

“I’m terrified of him and don’t want anyone else to ever be put in that position,” she said in a victim impact statement read to the court on her behalf.

Ghiloni entered an open guilty plea Monday to two counts of aggravated assault and one count each of possession of an instrument of crime, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and harassment, the DA's office said.

His sentence will be followed by five years of probation, according to the news release.

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