Man who sent 'So I raped you' message to woman sentenced for 2013 college campus assault

"A man who sent a Facebook message that said, "So I raped you," to a woman he had sexually assaulted in college in 2013 was sentenced to two to four years in prison on Monday. The sentence came more than a year after Ian Cleary was extradited back to Pennsylvania from France over the assault at Gettysburg College and nearly 12 years after the victim first went to police."

"The victim, Shannon Keeler, told the court on Monday that the messages only reopened wounds she had long carried over the assault, which went years without being prosecuted. "The system meant to protect me protected you instead," said Keeler, detailing in a powerful 10-minute impact statement the years she spent pursuing charges, which prosecutors are often reluctant to file in campus sexual assault cases."

Ian Cleary received a two- to four-year prison sentence after admitting to sexually assaulting a classmate at Gettysburg College in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message saying, "So I raped you." The sentence followed Cleary's extradition from France and nearly 12 years after the victim first reported the assault. The judge imposed a term below state guidelines, citing Cleary's guilty plea, expressed remorse and long history of mental illness; Cleary said he sent the messages as part of a 12-step program seeking atonement. The victim described enduring trauma and criticized the system for protecting the attacker while charges went years without prosecution.

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