{"id":14089,"date":"2026-04-22T01:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/14089\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:46:53","slug":"ottawa-man-agrees-to-be-held-in-devastating-beating-case-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/14089\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa man agrees to be held in \u2018devastating\u2019 beating case \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Ottawa<\/a> man accused of beating a woman over 60 \u2013 the victim remains hospitalized \u2013 will stay in jail for the time being.<\/p>\n

Aaron C. Haskins, 50, appeared Monday in La Salle County Circuit Court<\/a> and was presented with two counts of aggravated battery (great bodily harm). He could face up to seven years.<\/p>\n

La Salle County<\/a> prosecutors were prepared for argue for detention, but Haskins emerged from a closed-door conference with the public defender and then advised a judge he would waive his right to hearing. He can revisit the issue, however.<\/p>\n

Haskins will next appear May 7 for arraignment. By that time, a La Salle County grand jury will have reviewed his two felony charges. His most serious count is a Class 2 felony carrying three to seven years at 85%.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the victim remains in a regional medical center with what the La Salle County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office described as \u201cdevastating\u201d injuries. The office declined to issue a condition report or medical update.<\/p>\n

While a detention hearing wasn\u2019t needed, prosecutors did file a motion to deny Haskins pre-trial release. According to that filing, Ottawa police found the victim bloodied and unresponsive at 10:46 p.m. Thursday in a wooded area in between the 200 blocks of East Joliet and East Marquette streets. <\/p>\n

The victim was later transferred by air to OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria, with \u201cnumerous injuries,\u201d according to the court filing, including a brain bleed.<\/p>\n

Court records disclosed that Haskins was developed as a suspect after witnesses disclosed troubling comments Haskins made. One witness told police that Haskins said, \u201cI got drunk and I beat her. I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d <\/p>\n

Another said Haskins phoned her and said he\u2019d done something \u201cvery bad.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t kill her. I didn\u2019t kill her,\u201d Haskins was quoted as saying, according to a court filing. \u201cI could\u2019ve killed her, but I didn\u2019t kill her.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not yet clear whether Haskins gave a statement to police. According to court records, however, Ottawa police did retrieve from the victim\u2019s phone threatening messages sent by Haskins on Wednesday, the eve of the beating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ottawa man accused of beating a woman over 60 \u2013 the victim remains hospitalized \u2013 will stay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6154,6151,6152,6153,7514,61],"class_list":["post-14089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-illinois-valley-front-headlines","tag-la-salle-county","tag-la-salle-county-court","tag-mywebtimes","tag-newstribune","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}