Pa. man sentenced to 2-4 years for 2013 campus sexual assault

A Pennsylvania man who sent a Facebook message that read, "So I raped you," to a woman he sexually assaulted on a college campus in 2013 was sentenced on Monday to two to four years in prison. Ian Cleary, 32, was handed the term more than a decade after the attack at Gettysburg College and after a prolonged effort by the victim to secure criminal charges.

Prosecutors say Cleary sneaked into the first-year dorm room of Shannon Keeler on the eve of winter break in December 2013, when few people were on campus, pushed his way into the room and assaulted the then 18-year-old. Keeler reported the attack to police hours later, submitted to an assault kit and identified witnesses, but prosecutors declined to file charges at the time, she has said.

Cleary later left Gettysburg, completed college in Silicon Valley, earned a master’s degree, worked at Tesla and moved overseas. In 2019 he sent Keeler an unopened Facebook message that said, "So I raped you," and included requests to hear her voice and to know whether the assault occurred. Keeler noticed the message months later and renewed her efforts with law enforcement. She spoke publicly in 2021 about the challenges of prosecuting...