GETTYSBURG, Pa. — An American extradited from France to face charges that he sexually assaulted a fellow Pennsylvania college student in 2013 – and later sent her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” – pleaded guilty Thursday.
Ian Cleary, 32, pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault more than a decade after Shannon Keeler says he sneaked into her first-year dorm at Gettysburg College on the eve of winter break and assaulted her. Cleary’s guilty plea was the first time she’d seen him since the assault.
“I had been thinking about this moment for 12 years,” said Keeler, who clenched her husband’s hand as Cleary was led into court by deputies. She called it a surreal moment. A decade ago, a former prosecutor had declined the case.
“It’s taken a lot of twists and turns to get to this point,” said Keeler, now 30. “It took a lot