Jason Dylan Chilly pleads guilty to wounding, common assault

A young Gympie man who punched his heavily pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and face has received his punishment for the “distressing” assault.

Jason Dylan Chilly, 21, of Gympie, leaves the city's District Court on Friday May 12, 2023, after pleading guilty to two counts of common assault and one count of wounding.

A young Gympie man who punched his heavily pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and face before cutting her leg will remain behind bars for several more months.

Gympie District Court heard Jason Dylan Chilly, 21, assaulted his partner during an argument at their home on September 30, 2022.

She was 21 weeks pregnant at the time.

He later drove her to the hospital but then punched her again, this time in the face, after accusing her of contacting police.

The court was told he then cut her thigh with an unknown object while she crying with with her eyes closed.

She was left with a wound about eight centimetres long and two millimeters deep.

Crown Prosecutor Alex Stark said it was “likely to leave a permanent scar”.

Gympie District Court heard Jason Dylan Chilly’s victim suffered a cut to her leg which required stitches and was likely to leave a scar.

Mr Stark said Chilly had a “substantial criminal history”.

The court heard he had previously been jailed for multiple crimes including assault occasioning bodily harm, going to cause fear, common assault, and stealing.

Mr Stark said the assault of his partner had happened within two months of him being released on parole.

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Defence lawyer Amelia Loode said her client had grown up in a home exposed to domestic violence.

He had been kicked out of that home when he was 15 years old, and was “homeless for much of his teenage years”.

It was during this time he developed a methamphetamine habit, she said.

Jason Dylan Chilly, 21, of Gympie, had been released on parole only two months before he assaulted and wounded his pregnant partner on 30 September, 2023.

Alcohol had become a problem too, she said, and Chilly had now come to realise “nothing ever goes good when he’s been drinking”.

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The 21-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of common assault and one of wounding, all domestic violence offences.

Judge Katherine McGinnis told Chilly his actions “must have been terribly distressing (for his partner) … and you risked causing her serious harm, or harm to her unborn child”.

She sentenced him to two-and-half-years’ jail, and while he had been in jail for 209 days so far she only declared 158 of them as time served.

He will be eligible for parole on July 4, 2023.