KANSAS CITY —A judge sentenced a Kansas City-area man to 20 years in prison for a 2021 knife attack of a woman in an Independence, Missouri, public park, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.

The defendant&nbsp; 30-year-old Ronald L. Thompson pleaded guilty to Assault 1st Degree as part of a plea agreement. The judge sentenced the to 20 years in prison on the Assault 1st conviction.

According to court records, police responded on Dec. 23, 2021 to Mill Creek park on N. River Blvd. in Independence after a caller to police dispatch reported a woman was screaming for help in the park. 

The woman was saying she had been stabbed. An officer located the woman who had suffered cuts and a laceration to her neck. She named her attacker.

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 </figure>KANSAS CITY —A judge sentenced a Kansas City-area man to 20 years in prison for a 2021 knife attack of a woman in an Independence, Missouri, public park, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.The defendant&nbsp; 30-year-old Ronald L. Thompson pleaded guilty to Assault 1st Degree as part of a plea agreement. The judge sentenced the to 20 years in prison on the Assault 1st conviction.According to court records, police responded on Dec. 23, 2021 to Mill Creek park on N. River Blvd. in Independence after a caller to police dispatch reported a woman was screaming for help in the park. The woman was saying she had been stabbed. An officer located the woman who had suffered cuts and a laceration to her neck. She named her attacker.

Man sentenced for knife attack on woman at KC-area park