ROUND ROCK, Texas - A Round Rock man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for biting his 70-year-old mother late last year.

The Williamson County District Attorney's office says this was part of a pattern of "escalating domestic terror spanning over a decade." What they're saying: 35-year-old Nicholas Stasney was sentenced to 10 years on a charge of injury to an elderly individual, just days after a jury found him guilty.

His conviction and sentence stems from a Dec. 13 incident where sheriff's deputies were sent to the home he shared with his mother after an acquaintance called law enforcement.