Mercer County judge sentences rapist to prison

A woman was sentenced for having sex with a 15-year-old boy.
MERCER -- A judge from Mercer County Common Pleas Court has sentenced a Sharon man to 21/2 to seven years in prison for the June rape of a Sharon woman.
Judge Francis Fornelli imposed the term on Christopher Parmenter, 25, of Quinby Street, Sharon, on Thursday for the rape of a woman at her Sharon residence. According to court documents, he knew the victim and raped her at knife point.
Parmenter has several other charges pending against him, including a warrant on a burglary charge in Iowa.
Also sentenced Thursday was Lamica Abram, 27, of Spearman Ave., Farrell, now lodged in the Lawrence County Jail, to six to 12 months in jail for possession of 15 "rocks" of cocaine in August and two months to one year for resisting arrest. The sentences were ordered served consecutively.
Probation: On Wednesday, Judge Thomas Dobson placed Sharon Weaver, 36, of East State Street, Sharon, on three years' probation for felony statutory sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy for having sexual intercourse with him several times between October 2000 and January 2001. Terms of the probation included requirements that she have no contact with the victim and that she stay in treatment.
He also sentenced Michelle Shaffer, 38, of Walnut Avenue, Sharon, to six to 18 months in jail and ordered her to make restitution for theft by deception, a felony. While employed between April and May 2000 at a Sharon antique shop, she used a credit card belonging to another to make $802 in purchases and wrote checks on another person's account totaling $3,467. She was given credit for nine days already served.