An Alexandria man charged with kidnapping and assaulting his ex-girl friend in March received a 10-year sentence last Wednesday.
Judge David Patterson sentenced 30-year-old Brian Gadbois after he entered a guilty plea to charges of aggravated kidnapping and domestic assault  in DeKalb County Criminal Court.
Gadbois was sentenced to serve at least 85 percent of the 10-year term before he will be eligible for release on the kidnapping charge.
He also received a sentence of 11 months, 29 days to serve in the domestic assault case.
Both sentences are to run concurrently with each other and concurrently with a sentence against him in Rutherford County.
He was given jail credit from April 4, 2010 to November 28 of this year.
The trouble began when Gadbois reportedly became upset when his girlfriend, who was six months pregnant at the time, arrived home from work late.
He tied her to the footboard of a bed in the home where they lived with their four children, aged nine months, 19 months, three years, and 12 years, on Measles Lane in Alexandria.
Gadbois reportedly left the woman tied there and assaulted her throughout the night.
Authorities say that he kicked, punched and slapped the woman, and made her sit partially clothed with her hands tied to the footboard of the bed.
The four children were in the home when the incident took place.
The woman freed herself when Gadbois left with the children to take the older sibling to the school bus stop the next morning.
Upon escaping from the home the woman hid in the woods until she could make her way to city hall and report the incident to police.
Gadbois took the children to their grandparent's home when he discovered that the woman was free and fled the county.
He was arrested in Rutherford County a few days after the incident.