A Long Island man will spend 15-17 years behind bars for stabbing and wounding the mother of his children while their kids were at home, then attempting to clean up the crime scene as she ran outside to seek help, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday.
Albaro Chacon, 38, of Brentwood, was sentenced on Monday after a jury declared him guilty on Nov. 19 of first-degree attempted assault, second-degree assault and tampering with physical evidence, all of which are felonies. He was also convicted on three misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
The verdict came nearly a year to the day after Chacon burst into his girlfriend’s bedroom where she slept apart from him, brandishing a knife, on Nov. 16, 2024. She was jolted awake to see her kids’ father coming at her, pointing a knife at her chest, prosecutors said.
“You are going to die here,” Chacon growled as he tried to stabbed her. The woman deflected the dagger away from her heart but was stabbed three times in the arm instead.
As they continued to fight, the woman managed to throw Chacon aside while protecting her 2-year-old niece, who was also in the room. She then ran outside the house, flagged down a passing car and called 911, the DA’s office said.
The relentless Chacon lurched outside after her just as his car door opened and out popped their 6-year-old son, begging his dad to stop. That’s when the terrified mom noticed their 5-year-old daughter was also in the car, realizing Chacon had planned to kill her and take off with the kids.
Still fleeing her wrathful partner, the woman ran back into the house. But once inside, she saw no trace of what had just transpired, prosecutors said. The floor she had bled all over a few minutes earlier had already been scrubbed clean. The blood-soaked sheets had been stripped from the bed and the house smelled like bleach.
When police arrived, they hauled Chacon to jail and took the woman to the hospital. Though she and her children are safe now, they may never be the same again, prosecutors said.
“The devastating harm inflicted by domestic violence is far reaching,” District Attorney Raymond Tierney said in a statement at Chacon’s conviction. “The defendant stabbed his girlfriend while children were present. Those children will live with the scars of that night for the rest of their lives.”
Chacon’s attorney, Danielle Papa, has not commented on the case.
