HOLLIDAYSBURG — An Altoona man will spend 7.5 to 20 years in a state prison for gun law violations and allegedly beating a woman to the point that she couldn’t see.

Nyshaun D. Kemp-Perrin, 24, who has been in Blair County Prison since his Feb. 25, 2017, arrest in Altoona, rendered guilty pleas Monday to two counts of possessing a prohibited firearm, two counts to carrying a firearm without a license and single counts of harassment, theft and escape.

Kemp-Perrin was scheduled Monday to select a jury to hear the criminal charges Altoona police filed against him last year. Instead, Kemp-Perrin rendered guilty pleas in exchange for a recommended sentence negotiated by First Assistant District Attorney Pete Weeks and defense attorney Francis Wymard.

Weeks advised Judge Jackie Bernard, who accepted the plea, that the female victim remains unwilling to cooperate with the prosecution.

The woman, who was in court, told Bernard that she had was living with Kemp-Perrin at the time of his arrest. She also cried as she addressed the judge.

“I didn’t have nothing broken,” the woman told Bernard as she spoke of the incident. “Just bruising.”

Altoona police initially charged Kemp-Perrin with aggravated assault based on finding the woman in a parked car at Margaret Avenue and 17th Street, her eyes swollen to the point that she couldn’t see. But that charge was dropped as part of the plea and a related simple assault charge was downgraded to a summary charge of harassment.

Bernard directed Kemp-Perrin, while incarcerated, to complete a Men Helping Men program and to sign up for substance abuse and mental health assessments, then follow any recommended treatments.

The judge also agreed to include a clause in the sentencing order, acknowledging that the woman and the 5-year-old son that she and Kemp-Perrin share can be in contact with Kemp-Perrin while he’s incarcerated.

The bulk of the negotiated incarceration time reflects Kemp-Perrin’s possession of two handguns police found in his backpack when initiating an arrest on the woman’s assault allegations. One of the handguns had an obliterated serial number. He was prohibited from possessing both, criminal charges indicate, because of his prior record and because he had no license.

Bernard imposed a recommended sentence of five- to 15-years incarceration for possession of a prohibited firearm, followed by a sentence of 2.5- to five-years incarceration for carrying a firearm without a license. Together, those sentences added up to the recommended 7.5 to 20 years. Additional charges, including ones applicable to the second handgun — possession of a prohibited firearm and carrying a firearm without a license, were imposed concurrently, meaning they will be served at the same time as the 7.5- to 20-year sentence.

Mirror Staff Writer Kay Stephens is at 946-7456.