GREENFIELD — An Athol man has been sentenced to eight to 15 years in prison after being found guilty on 16 charges, including assault and battery.
Christopher C. Mundell, 39, was handed the sentence on Friday afternoon, about five weeks after having been convicted by a Franklin County Superior Court jury. Judge Jeremy Bucci heard from prosecutors, Mundell’s attorney and the victim before announcing his decision.
“There is no line for him,” the victim told Bucci, imploring him to impose a strict sentence.
When rendering his decision, Bucci told the victim that no prison sentence could alleviate the agony she has experienced.
A jury convicted Mundell of six counts of assault and battery on a family or household member, two counts of threatening to commit a crime, and single counts of suffocation, kidnapping, indecent assault and battery, assault with intent to commit rape, intimidation of a witness, breaking and entering during the daytime with the intent to commit a felony, vandalism and wanton destruction of property.
He was acquitted on one count of indecent assault and battery, and one count of withholding evidence from a criminal proceeding.
According to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, the convictions stem from a series of domestic violence and sexual assault offenses committed against Mundell’s former girlfriend in Montague and Athol between 2021 and 2022. Evidence presented at trial in August also showed that Mundell threatened to kill the victim’s pets.
At the time of the crimes, Mundell was on probation following his 2010 conviction on charges related to sexually assaulting and stabbing a 2-year-old girl left in his care in May 2009, according to the DA’s office. Mundell had been sentenced to 11 to 13 years in state prison on that case and was released in 2021.
In December 2024, based on his commission of these new crimes, Mundell was found in violation of his probation and sentenced to 2½ years in the House of Correction.
Mundell’s case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Andrew Covington and Jillian Parent. He was defended by Woburn attorney Austin Andenmatten, who argued at Friday’s sentencing that he believes Mundell can be rehabilitated in prison.