Lawton man to serve 6 years for 2022 beating of ex-girlfriend

A Lawton man pleaded guilty to the April 2022 beating of his now ex-girlfriend that left her with a lacerated liver and fractured ribs.

On Thursday, Christopher Jordan Ototivo, 31, pleaded guilty in Comanche County District Court to felony counts of domestic assault and battery resulting in great bodily harm and feloniously pointing a firearm, as well as a misdemeanor count of threatening to perform an act of violence, records indicate.

District Judge Scott D. Meaders ordered Ototivo to serve 10 years with the Department of Corrections with six years to serve and four years suspended for the domestic assault, a five year suspended sentence for the firearm charge to serve consecutive to the first count and one year in the Comanche County Detention Center for the misdemeanor count and is to be served concurrent with the domestic abuse count.

Ototivo also was ordered to pay $20,968.71 in restitution to the victim plus court costs and fines.

Ototivo’s then-girlfriend told police she and Ototivo had returned to her home after drinking at a bar the night of March 31, 2022, and she went to bed. She said Ototivo started breaking things and then attacked her while she was in bed, the warrant affidavit states. While wearing steel-toed boots, Ototivo kicked her in the ribs and punched her in the face and choked her to near-unconsciousness.

Once Ototivo let go of her neck, the woman said, he grabbed her pistol and held it to her head. She said he told her, “He would call the police when she was dead,” according to the affidavit. When he went to the bathroom to flush her phone down the toilet, the woman said she was able to run, naked and injured, to her neighbors to call police.

After being taken to Comanche County Memorial Hospital, it was learned the woman had a lacerated liver and fractures to nine ribs, the affidavit states. She was transferred to the trauma center at OU Medical in Oklahoma City.

Ototivo had been free on $10,000 bond since his initial court appearance on April 18, 2022. His bond was increased to $25,000 on March 8 and he had been free since then. He’s now in the custody of the Comanche County Detention Center.

The ex-girlfriend attained a protective order against Ototivo in April 2022. Records indicate he was charged with a misdemeanor count of protective order violation against he woman on May 17. He has pleaded not guilty in that case and is scheduled for sounding of the misdemeanor trial docket at 9 a.m. July 24.