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Reliever pleads guilty to hitting wife

Associated Press

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

NEW YORK -- Former Seattle Mariners reliever Julio Mateo pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of beating his wife in a Manhattan hotel. The 30-year-old player pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and disorderly conduct, admitting he hit Santa Martina Sanchez on May 5, 2007. In exchange for the plea, Mateo was spared jail and sentenced to a domestic abuse program. Mateo's wife told police the pitcher punched her in the eye, choked her and bit her lip, causing a large cut that required at least ...

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