An Athol man has been found guilty of committing 16 domestic violence, sexual assault and other offenses against his ex-girlfriend following his release from prison in 2021, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.
On Monday, a Franklin County Superior Court jury convicted 39-year-old Christopher Mundell of charges including six counts of assault and battery on a household member; two counts of threatening to commit a crime; and one count each of suffocation, kidnapping, indecent assault and battery and assault with intent to commit rape, the district attorney’s office said in a press release.
The verdict followed a two-day trial and three days of jury deliberations, the district attorney’s office said. Mundell was acquitted on one count each of indecent assault and battery and withholding evidence from a criminal proceeding.
The offenses stem from a series of domestic violence and sexual assault incidents involving Mundell’s former girlfriend that occurred in Athol and Montague on various dates in 2021 and 2022, the district attorney’s office said. Evidence presented at trial also showed that he threatened to kill her pets.
“The survivor in this case showed tremendous courage by coming forward and testifying against Mr. Mundell in three separate proceedings,” Assistant District Attorney Andrew Covington said in the release. “The case was particularly egregious.”
At the time Mundell committed the offenses against his ex-girlfriend, he was on probation from a 2010 conviction for sexually assaulting and stabbing a 2-year-old child, the district attorney’s office said. He was sentenced to 11 to 13 years in prison in that case and released in 2021.
Mundell was found in violation of his probation in light of the new offenses and sentenced to two and a half years in prison in December 2024, the district attorney’s office said. He is scheduled to be sentenced for the 16 new convictions on Sept. 18.
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