Man gets probation for 2018 SRU dorm assault
A Wexford man on Thursday was found to be a sexual offender under Megan’s Law and was given a lengthy probation sentence after pleading no contest to charges filed for assaulting a woman in a Slippery Rock University dorm room in 2018.
Jesse John King, 25, was found to be a Tier 1 sexual offender under Megan’s Law and was sentenced to serve 54 months of probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint and indecent assault in Butler County Common Pleas Court.
University police filed those charges and other charges against King, who was not a student at SRU, following the April 5, 2018, incident that took place in a North Hall dorm room after he and the victim had been drinking. The victim did not attend the sentencing hearing.
Police said King and the victim had been drinking beer and vodka in another dorm room in North Hall before returning to her room, where the woman allowed King to spend the night before she fell asleep.
Sometime overnight, police said, King sexually assaulted the woman, who woke up the next day to find herself in pain and her clothes in disarray.
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