Christopher Mims, who is accused of battering his ex-girlfriend for hours Saturday before engaging police in a lengthy standoff at his Ledyard home, two weeks earlier had been released from a six-month prison stint for domestic violence, where he wrote of a plan "to kill anyone responsible for putting him in jail," according to court documents.

Hospitalized following Saturday's incident at 60 Stonybrook Road, Mims, 32, whose criminal record dates back to age 16, was arraigned Tuesday in New London Superior Court on charges of risk of injury to a minor, second-degree assault, threatening and first-degree unlawful restraint.

The alleged victim, who is not identified in a Ledyard police report, was not the victim in the incident that led to Mims' latest prison sentence, but had been struck by him before and feared for her safety, according to family court documents.

She had applied, unsuccessfully, for a restraining order that would have prohibited him from contacting her except to discuss their 2-year-old daughter, of whom she has sole custody.

On Saturday, she told police, she took the daughter to Mims' home at about 11 a.m. after he asked her to meet his "sponsor" so that she would feel more comfortable leaving the child with him.

Mims met them outside and picked up the child, then grabbed the victim by the hair and shirt and pulled her into the house, according to the report.

He told her the "sponsor" was in another room, then pushed her into a bedroom and locked the door, she said.

Mims, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall, wore handcuffs and leg irons and was surrounded by judicial marshals during the brief court appearance.

Judge Hillary B. Strackbein kept his bond at $750,000, noting the seriousness of the case and the likelihood of additional charges.

At the request of the alleged victim, the judge issued a protective order prohibiting Mims from having contact with her and her child.

Strackbein appointed attorney M. Fred DeCaprio from the public defender's office to represent Mims, continued the case to April 26 and noted that prison officials should keep Mims on medical and suicide watch.

Though police said he suffered what appeared to be minor injuries following the incident, he had been admitted to Yale New-Haven Hospital for observation.

The woman said Mims told her, "You are going to die today," and over the course of 4½ hours, with their child present in the bedroom, he drank "nip" bottles of alcohol as he repeatedly kicked and punched the woman.

He tied her hands and feet with a rope, and forced her to read aloud from a notebook of "crazy" writings that she believed he had written in prison, according to the report.

One of the writings said Mims was going to kill anyone responsible for putting him in jail, she said.

He went through her cellphone, striking her every time he found something that upset him, according to the report.

She said she got "knocked out" several times, and feared she may have been raped after waking up to find she was partially undressed.

At one point, she said he threw her on the bed and poured Coca-Cola down her throat.

There was no "sponsor" at the home, according to Ledyard police Lt. Kenneth Creutz.

"He had invited both of the mothers of his children over, at staggered times, with the intent of their meeting his sponsor," Cruetz said. "We believe that was some kind of ruse."

Mims told the woman he planned to kill her and the other mother, and pointed to ropes hanging from a bookshelf that he said were "all ready for her," according to the report.

She said he planned to take the children to the victim's mother's house, then kill himself.

The alleged victim alerted the other woman by text message, and she did not go to the home, according to police.

The woman said she tried to reason with him, telling him she would bring him to the hospital if he released her.

Eventually, the woman said, Mims used a large kitchen knife to cut the ropes that bound her.

She said he left the room when somebody came to the door — the landlady, according to police — and she took her daughter and fled, dialing 911 on her cellphone.

She said she saw a woman delivering mail and asked her to call for help.

Then, she said, she drove to the former Norwich Hospital site, where she met with state and Ledyard police.

She was hospitalized for a swollen face and multiple cuts and bruises, and on Tuesday, Superior Court prosecutor David J. Smith said she had to return to the hospital for "lingering physical effects" of the incident.

After her escape, the woman told police that Mims was unstable and possibly suicidal.

Over the next six hours, Ledyard police said, Mims refused to leave the home, threatening during on-and-off communications to commit "suicide by cop."

A state police negotiator went to the home to assist, as did members of the Montville and Norwich police departments.

Ledyard police issued two reverse 911 messages asking residents of nearby homes to stay inside.

Mims surrendered about 9:30 p.m., police said.

While holding the woman captive, Mims had produced a copy of her March 24 application for a temporary restraining order, according to court officials.

The day of his release from jail, she applied in family court in Norwich for a restraining order prohibiting Mims from contacting her except to discuss their daughter's "immediate needs."

She said Mims had been arrested in May 2015 for nearly breaking her jaw and that a protective order in that case had since expired.

She said Mims had been calling her and asking to her to bring their daughter to a hotel to see him and had told his probation officer that he would be living at her parents' home, where she said he is not allowed.

"He has said to his sister today that he is homeless and that it's partly my fault and that if he goes down, someone goes down with him," the application says. "I am scared of this man and need to be protected."

Judge Leo V. Diana granted a temporary restraining order that day, but dismissed the case on April 4 after conducting a hearing and determining the applicant had not met the statutory requirements for a restraining order of up to one year, according to court records.

To issue a temporary restraining order for up to two weeks, a judge must find the applicant is in imminent danger of physical injury.

At the hearing, the judge can consider a wider range of information, including testimony from both parties and criminal and family court records, before determining whether there is a "continuous threat of present physical pain or physical injury, stalking or a pattern of threatening," according to the state law.

k.florin@theday.com