Background: The Gresham Police Department in Gresham, Ore. (Google Maps). Inset: Manuel Jesus Huchin-Interian (Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office).
An Oregon man who attacked the mother of his children and threatened to “finish her” and their children pleaded guilty and is now awaiting sentencing.
Manuel Jesus Huchin-Interian, whose age was not provided, entered a guilty plea on April 18 to assault in the second degree constituting domestic violence, according to a press release from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. The attack in question took place in 2021 in front of the couple’s then-10-year-old daughter, who tried to defend herself and her mother before barricading herself in another room with her siblings. Huchin-Interian fled the state and was arrested in San Francisco in March 2024.
Despite Huchin-Interian’s threats that he would “finish her” and then “finish the kids,” the woman survived an 8-inch knife wound to her neck.
According to the DA, the attack occurred on June 7, 2021, at the family’s home in Gresham, a city in the eastern part of the greater Portland area. Several people in the neighborhood called 911, including the couple’s daughter, “who reported that her parents were arguing and dad stabbed mom.” The girl told police that she had tried to stab her father in self-defense, but the knife was too dull. She then gathered up her younger siblings in a separate room and locked the door.
The girl stayed on the phone with 911 dispatchers until Huchin-Interian was gone. She then came out of the room to try to help her mother, who was found by police “lifeless” in a pool of her own blood. Despite the life-threatening wound — stated to be an 8-inch knife wound to her neck — the woman survived.
When the woman was questioned by police after the attack, she told them that Huchin-Interian accused her of cheating as he cut her throat. During the attack, he told her he was going to “finish her” and then “finish the kids.”
Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Robin Beck Skarstad highlighted the daughter’s heroic acts in the release, saying, “This case underscores the devastating impact domestic violence has on children in the home. The victim’s young daughter showed bravery and resilience that truly inspires us to work hard every day to interrupt the cycle of abuse and to keep families safe.”
Huchin-Interian is expected to be sentenced to 70 months in prison and three years post prison supervision.
If you are experiencing domestic violence, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential, and available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
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