33 years in exotic dancer rape case

WARREN — Jeffrey L. Town, a 48-year-old Newton Falls man convicted of raping an exotic dancer in his apartment last December, was sentenced to 33 years in prison Monday.

Asked by Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court whether he had any anything to say before sentencing, Town said he was “sorry that the event did occur.”

He added that he respected the jury’s decision, though he disagreed with its verdict.

The victim did not speak.

A jury convicted Town of three counts of rape, one of kidnapping and one of gross sexual imposition, though the sentences for the kidnapping and gross sexual imposition will be served at the same time as the rape sentences.

Town received the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison on each of the rape counts, plus an additional year on each rape count for being a repeat violent offender.

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