A man with at least four prior violent crime cases – three of which he already has been convicted of – has been arrested on allegations he enslaved a woman he knows over three days, beat her several times, pulled her front tooth out with pliers, and raped her with a toilet plunger.
Eugene Tudela Huffman, who in 2021 was arrested on allegations he assaulted another woman known to him with a machete, was hailed as a hero last year after he removed an infant from an allegedly abusive home situation and brought the baby to a hospital. The year before that, however, Mr. Huffman was arrested on family violence and advanced stalking charges stemming from an alleged choking incident. In that case, according to the magistrates report, Mr. Huffman also used pliers. In that incident it was allegedly to grab the wrist of the woman trying to flee from his assault.
According to the charging document in the new case, a Guam Regional Medical City doctor on June 5 called police after learning a female patient – the victim in this case – “had been badly beaten and may have been sexually assaulted.”
When police interviewed the woman at GRMC, she told officers “she was tortured and beaten badly,” from Sunday, June 2 through Tuesday, June 4 at Mr. Huffman’s Dededo home after he allegedly detained her there. Her illegal detention followed her release from Guam Memorial Hospital, where she was receiving medical treatment, on June 1.
“During the three days, victim could recall being hit in the head with a belt buckle, having her front tooth pulled out with pliers, and being penetrated twice with a toilet plunger,” according to the magistrate’s complaint against Mr. Huffman in the latest case.
Police were unable to apprehend Mr. Huffman until August 6, when police visited his residence regarding “an expired person complaint.” The charging document does not go into any further detail about the expired person. During that visit, police recognized him as the suspect in the June incident, read him is rights, and proceeded with an interview of Mr. Huffman, according to the complaint.
“I beat her up,” the complaint states Mr. Huffman told police about the June victim. While he admitted to assaulting the woman, he denied using a plunger to rape her.
The complaint states that Mr. Huffman resisted arrest and that police had to use a taser to subdue him.
He was charged in the Superior Court of Guam with first degree criminal sexual conduct, aggravated assault, family violence, and felonious restraint, all as felonies.
