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Kalihi slaying
By Debra Barayuga
victim had canceled
restraining order
Star-BulletinA Kalihi woman allegedly stabbed to death by her husband Saturday had sought a temporary restraining order against him in March 1998 for threatening her with a knife.
But Erlinda Millon had the order, granted March 30, dissolved at her request at an April 13 Family Court hearing, according to court documents. The documents gave no explanation as to why she changed her mind.
Police yesterday charged her husband Saturnino Millon, 37, with second-degree murder in her death. He's being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Police found Erlinda Millon, 35, lying on the kitchen floor Saturday with stab wounds to the chest and stomach at their Desha Lane apartment after someone reported the couple was arguing. She died later at Queen's Hospital.
According to a court affidavit, a police officer sent the apartment building to investigate a domestic case was told an unknown male had reported he had killed his wife.
Officer Steve Favela entered the open door and saw a man later identified as Saturnino Millon talking on the phone.
When Favela asked Millon what was going on and if anyone else was in the house, Millon replied, "My wife is in the kitchen, I killed my wife," the affidavit said.
Another responding officer G. Scoville entered the home and located Erlinda Millon lying on the floor in the kitchen bleeding from what appeared to be a stab wound to the right rib. She had no pulse.
A knife apparently used in the stabbing was found in the kitchen sink with what appeared to be blood on the blade.
Erlinda Millon had sought the temporary restraining order March 30, 1998 -- just four days after police arrested her husband for threatening her.
At the time, the couple had five children, the youngest a girl born just a month earlier. They had three other girls ages 11, eight and three, and a 22-month old boy.
The couple now have six children.
According to documents filed by Erlinda Millon, her husband had "pointed a bolo knife at her throat" on March 26, 1998, threatened to kill her, and physically harmed her. Police arrested him on two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.
He also had physically assaulted her in previous incidents in December 1997 and February 1998, including attempting to strangle her, she noted.
She said her husband had subjected her to extreme psychological abuse.
"I just gave birth and he accused me of having boyfriends, calls me names, yells at me," she wrote. "He acts crazy."
Family Court Judge Rodney K.F. Ching granted the protective order that same day prohibiting her husband from going near her or contacting her or the children at their Waipahu address or at school.
Both appeared in court April 13 before Family Court Judge Darryl Choy, who dissolved the protective order.
Saturnino Millon pleaded no contest to the two charges of terroristic threatening. At his sentencing in September 1998, the judge granted him a deferred acceptance of his no contest plea. The state had sought six months imprisonment.
Under the terms of the court's order, Millon could have the charges erased from his record if he stayed out of trouble for five years.
