Man Who Assaulted Pregnant Woman With Steel Chair Gets Jail

A Boston man who violently assaulted a pregnant woman with a chair was jailed Monday after a Suffolk Superior jury delivered a guilty ruling.

According to court documents, Keita Freeman, of Boston, also called the victim multiple times from jail to deliver threatening messages over the phone.

Assistant District Attorney Gregory Henning says Freeman repeatedly beat the victim, who was three months pregnant at the time, with a steel chair. Freeman approached the victim at an apartment on Williams Street after he believed she had disturbed items belonging to his girlfriend Pamela Ferrie.

Ferrie, 45, was given two years of probation for her rule in the incident. Henning says Ferrie tried to prevent the victim from testifying. Court evidence indicated Ferrie threatened to kill the victim and her child if she cooperated with investigators.

A six to eight year prison sentence was originally proposed as punishment for Freeman.