Staff photo / Ed Runyan Antwan Anderson was placed on three years of probation after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of attempted felonious assault, plus strangulation and domestic violence.

YOUNGSTOWN — Antwan Anderson, of Elm Street, was sentenced to three years of probation Wednesday after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of attempted felonious assault, plus strangulation and domestic violence.

He will spend another six months on electronically monitored house arrest and is ordered to continue to receive counseling and anger-management training.

The charges resulted from a June 27 case in Youngstown involving the mother of his child. The altercation resulted in Anderson, 42, being charged with felonious assault, which could have resulted in him getting as much as eight years in prison if convicted, but prosecutors asked that the charge be reduced to a lower level felony, and Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony Donofrio agreed.

The strangulation is a low-level felony, and the domestic violence is a misdemeanor. Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer Paris recommended that Anderson get 18 months in prison, but she told the judge the victim does not want Anderson to get prison time.

“She does want the defendant to accept responsibility and be held accountable for what he did on this date, but she specifically requested that I let the court know that she does not want him to go to prison, that he is working well in co-parenting for their child. He does a lot to help her when it comes to the child that they share,” Paris said. She believes the child is 15 months old.

The victim said prison would not help Anderson and not help their child, in addition to another child of Anderson’s who has “substantial health issues,” Paris said.

The victim asked that Anderson get probation with counseling and anger management.

Walter Madison, Anderson’s attorney, told the judge Anderson started receiving counseling earlier. Madison said the day of the assault, Anderson felt that things the woman said were “an attack on his manhood, particularly embarrassing to him in front of a third party, and he handled his emotions in probably the poorest way.”

Madison said the last time Anderson faced prison was in 2006 — 19 years ago.

Paris said prison is warranted because of the “seriousness of the offense and the nature of the offense. The victim in this matter did receive six stitches to her forehead just above her eyebrow. She received a substantial laceration based on a physical assault.”

She said Anderson, who works as a welder, was also convicted of felonious assault in 2006.