Monica DelkA Hamilton County judge Friday sentenced a 37-year-old woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend to 10 years of probation.
Criminal Court Judge Barry Steelman denied Monica Delk’s request for diversion, which would have withheld the sentence and potentially scrubbed it from her criminal record.
Delk, who already has served 18 months in the Silverdale detention facility, will receive psychiatric services and return to her friends and job at Bojangles in Rockwood, Tenn., Steelman said. If she encounters problems with her probation, then she could serve the remainder of her three-year sentence.
“It’s what we expected,” said her attorney, John McDougal, who added that mental health services will provide Delk the support network necessary to rebuild her life.
Police say Delk stabbed Charles Brown IV, her 27-year-old boyfriend, on Jan. 5, 2014, during a heated argument in her apartment at the College Hill Courts development. She cleaned the mess, put a blanket over Brown’s body and alerted the police eight hours after he died on the floor.