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A 25-year-old D.C. woman who pled guilty to stabbing her girlfriend 14 times on a street in Southeast Washington in August was sentenced on Nov. 20 to eight years in jail.

In addition to the prison sentence, D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin also sentenced Maya Shelia Moore to five years of supervised release upon completion of her prison term.

A police arrest affidavit says D.C. police officers arriving at the scene of the stabbing appear to have saved the victim’s life by quickly placing a makeshift tourniquet on her right thigh, which was spurting blood. Had the officers not taken that action the victim likely would have bled to death before the arrival of emergency medical personnel, the affidavit says.

Police and prosecutors initially charged Moore with assault with intent to kill while armed. As part of a plea bargain arrangement reached in September, the U.S. Attorney’s Office lowered the charge to aggravated assault while armed in exchange for Moore’s agreement to plead guilty.

As part of the agreement prosecutors recommended to the court that Moore be given the eight-year prison sentence along with the five-year supervised release requirement. The charge of aggravated assault while armed carries a possible maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

The police affidavit says Moore and the victim had been in a “romantic relationship” for at least two years. Court records show that Moore had been arrested for allegedly assaulting the same victim, her girlfriend, in two separate incidents, one in June of this year and the other in September 2013.

“Unfortunately, statistically speaking, it often takes a victim multiple times to leave an abusive relationship,” said June Crenshaw, chair of the board for Rainbow Response Coalition, a D.C.-based group that promotes public education on LGBT-related domestic violence.

“And so this particular incident is not an isolated incident,” Crenshaw told the Washington Blade in September at the time Moore pled guilty in the case. “Unfortunately, these types of situations occur far too often.”