City man gets 3-year prison term on attempted rape charge


January 31, 2008 at 8:29p.m.

City man gets 3-year prison term on attempted rape charge

YOUNGSTOWN — A man who faced up to 111 1/2 years in prison on 10 rape counts and one count each of kidnapping and gross sexual imposition has pleaded guilty to one count of attempted rape and been sentenced to three years in prison.

Andre Mason, 37, of Detroit Avenue, entered his guilty plea as he was to go to trial today, and Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court immediately imposed the nonappealable three-year term the prosecution and defense had agreed upon.

The offenses were allegedly committed against a 28-year-old Youngstown woman, who had a prior dating relationship with Mason, over a six-hour period on June 17, 2007, at the Detroit Avenue location, said Dawn Krueger, assistant county prosecutor.

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