“I ll pray for you.” Nearly eight years after Keeler originally reported the incident to police, a Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday (local time) signed an arrest warrant charging Cleary with sexual assault. The action came after the Gettysburg Police Department reopened the case in 2020 and verified Keeler s account and the alleged confession, which was first reported by the Associated Press last month. The warrant was filed this week after police matched the Facebook account that sent the messages to a cellphone number, according to an affidavit. Cleary, 28, of Saratoga, California, in the US, had not been located by authorities as of Wednesday afternoon. He did not respond to messages left at a phone number listed for him.
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Authorities in California said Tuesday they had obtained an arrest warrant for a San Jose-area man in connection with a former Pennsylvania college student s rape allegation from 2013.
The recent action against suspect Ian Cleary, 28, of Saratoga, California, was triggered by a message from his Facebook account last year that said, So I raped you, The Associated Press reported.
The suspect and the woman making the allegation, Shannon Keeler, were classmates at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania at the time the alleged rape occurred, the AP reported.
Keeler had been urging prosecutors for years to pursue the matter – supplying bits of evidence and names of potential witnesses along the way but little investigative action was taken on her behalf until after she took her story to The Associated Press last year after receiving the So I raped you message, according to the news service.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) â A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday signed an arrest warrant charging a former Gettysburg College student with sexual assault, nearly eight years after a freshman went to police over a dorm room encounter and a year after she received an online message that read, âSo I raped you.â
Police say they are looking for 28-year-old Ian Cleary of Saratoga, California, but had not yet located him. The affidavit filed along with the warrant indicates police secured a search warrant for Clearyâs Facebook account to link him to the message through a matching cell phone number.
The affidavit accuses Cleary, then a junior and a goalie on the ice hockey team, of stalking Shannon Keeler at a fraternity party in December 2013. He then followed her home to her dorm, sneaked into her room and sexually assaulted her, the warrant alleges. As he apologized and fled, Keeler texted friends on campus âOMG please Help me,â according to the warrant.
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