AUGUSTA — An Albion man who shattered a woman’s jaw, forcing her to have surgery and her jaw to be wired shut for six weeks, was sentenced to six years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to domestic assault and drug trafficking charges.

Clayton A. Turner, 30, pleaded guilty to domestic violence aggravated assault, unlawful trafficking in fentanyl, and lesser charges.

The victim in the case said Turner assaulted her, leaving her with a jaw broken in two places that required surgery. Her jaw was wired shut for six weeks, forcing her on to a liquid diet, and the assault left her with a black eye and other facial injuries so bad she couldn’t go to work for fear of scaring the children she worked with. She said she was left by the side of the road after the Jan. 18, 2024, assault, where she was found by her friends who took her to the hospital.

“I live with the trauma every day,” the woman said in a written statement read for her in court by Megan Dickey, a victim and witness advocate, at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta. “My children worry if they don’t hear from me. My face continues to hurt, I live in constant fear and anxiety. This has impacted not only my life, but also my two daughters.”

Prosecutor Shannon Flaherty, an assistant district attorney, said the victim initially told police she had been jumped by a stranger at a Waterville gas station, but had told a friend she’d been assaulted by her boyfriend, Turner, at his home in Albion. She later cooperated with police and told them about Turner’s assault on her.

When questioned by police the next day, Turner had dried blood under one of his eyes and bruising on his hands. He acknowledged he and the victim were drinking and argued the previous night, and said she tried to throw something at him, but he denied assaulting her.

In a plea deal, Turner pleaded guilty to a Class B domestic violence aggravated assault charge, and violating conditions of release, with a domestic assault charge dismissed.

Flaherty acknowledged the victim wanted Turner to get more prison time, and also expressed concern about whether Turner would get treatment for being a batterer. Flaherty said the victim was concerned Turner could assault someone else after he’s released from prison.

Turner also pleaded guilty, as part of a plea deal in an unrelated case, to unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, with an initial three counts of the more serious charge of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs dismissed as part of the deal.

In that case, Turner, on May 10, 2023, sold 1.2 grams of fentanyl to an undercover informant working with the state Drug Enforcement Agency, after arranging the drug deal with the informant on the phone. The informant told police Turner was weighing and packaging fentanyl for sale when he made the buy from him, said prosecutor Darcy Mitchell, an assistant attorney general.

He was sentenced to four years on the drug charge, though that time will be served concurrent with the six-year sentence in the domestic violence case.

He also pleaded guilty to violating bail conditions on multiple occasions, with his 33-month sentence for those violations also to be served concurrent to the domestic violence sentence.