Sentencing set Monday for Trumbull rapist


October 15, 2007 at 10:24p.m.

Sentencing set Monday for Trumbull rapist

WARREN — A Newton Falls man convicted of raping an exotic dancer will be sentenced Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

During a repeat-offender hearing before Judge Peter J. Kontos, both the prosecution and defense lawyer for Jeffrey L. Town, 48, stipulated to his prior convictions.

Town was convicted by a jury last month of kidnapping, gross sexual imposition and three counts of rape.

David Toepfer, an assistant county prosecutor, presented evidence that convinced a jury that Town, who had become enamored with a 20-year-old stripper, raped her Dec. 11, 2006, at his Newton Falls apartment.

Defense attorney John Juhasz took the position that Town and the dancer had consensual sex.

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