A Warren man has pled guilty to domestic violence and child endangerment charges against him in a Trumbull County courtroom on Tuesday.

According to the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office, 42-year-old Shawn Stambolia pled guilty to one count of domestic violence, a felony in the fourth degree and another fourth degree charge of child endangering.

The charges stem from an incident in June of 2023 when Warren Township police were dispatched to a home on Miller Street where police say Stambolia struck his live-in girlfriend in front of children.

According to a police report from Warren Township PD, Stambolia punched the victim in the face and also struck her with a baseball bat breaking her arm.

In addition, police found the children to be living in deplorable conditions with the report stating that there were no refrigerators or stoves inside the house and there was frozen food in coolers, but the coolers did not have ice in them.

Police also say some of the children were wearing full diapers that were well beyond needing changing and another was drinking curdled milk out of a bottle with mold on the lid.

This wasn't Stambolia's first run-in with the law, as his indictment cited incidents from 2019 and common pleas court records show another incident from 2020. Both incident show charges of domestic violence.

Additionally in 2007, Stambolia, along with another woman were accused of using a makeshift cage to restrain a two-year-old child. He was sentenced to five years of community control as a result of this incident according to court records.

None of the children in the 2023 case appear to be connected to the two-year-old in the 2007 case. 

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