A 30-year-old Oak Harbor man was sentenced to prison Monday for choking his girlfriend.

Kevin Adams pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court to second-degree assault.

Adams was charged originally with both the assault count and attempted rape, but the sex-crime charge was dismissed under the plea bargain.

Also as part of a plea bargain, both the prosecution and defense recommended a sentence of a year and one day in prison. Judge Vickie Churchill agreed.

In his statement on pleading guilty, Adams wrote that he was very intoxicated when he assaulted the woman and was very sorry for scaring and hurting her.

Adams’ attorney said that Adams has no money, no job and no family in the state. He asked the judge to waive the non-mandatory fines and fees.

“He’s about as indigent as you can get,” Stephen McKay said.

Churchill agreed and waived the fees.

The victim and Adams were in the process of breaking up when Adams came home drunk and became violent on Aug. 4, according to a report by Officer Jennifer Gravel with the Oak Harbor Police Department.

Adams got on top of the woman in bed and choked her until she started losing consciousness; he tried to force her legs apart and her underwear down, the officer’s report states.

When she resisted, he kneed her between the legs and spat in her face; he told her he would rather go to prison than be without her and then left, Gravel wrote.

The woman sustained bruising from the assault.

A deputy found Adams passed out in his car, which was parked outside of his ex-girlfriend’s home in Coupeville.

The police report details Adams’ extensive criminal history, which includes burglary, assault and a kidnapping charge.