‘He enjoyed cutting me:’ Las Cruces woman testifies against ex-boyfriend in gruesome case with lost unborn child

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico - A Las Cruces jury will soon decide the face of a man accused of beating, punching and biting his pregnant ex-girlfriend, causing injuries that prosecutors say led to her miscarriage in May 2018.

"He kept saying, 'You are a stupid whore. I am glad I am doing this. I wish you were dead,'" recalled Angel Swanson, who still has an open wound on her head.

Timothy Trejo-Vigil stands trial for that alleged attack, where Swanson said he punched her, bit her and cut her with multiple knives during a two-day period last year, leading to her hospitalization for three months..

"He said, 'Either shut up or I'm going to keep beating you and I hope I kill you,'" Swanson told the jury.

They had lived together for five years. Swanson said he allegedly locked her in the bedroom, forcing her to urinate in a water bottle.

"He was abusive," she said.

The prosecution evidence on Tuesday ranged from an orange machete to a knife to broken broomsticks.

"That was one of the broomsticks he hit me upside the head with," Swanson said, as she identified the objects in court.

Trejo-Vigil did not show emotion during the trial, at times fidgeting with a pen or leaning on his arm. Swanson said she had not told him she was pregnant before he allegedly beat her.

"He hit me in the stomach," she said, describing the moments leading to her miscarriage. "I felt like I was cold and that I was finally just going to die."

The jury is expected to deliberate on a verdict beginning Wednesday morning.

Deputy District Attorney Anne Marie Peterson is prosecuting the case and Raymond Conley is Trejo-Vigil's public defender.