Austintown woman charged with sexual assault against two women

YOUNGSTOWN — A 54-year-old Austintown woman is in the Mahoning County Jail on $20,000 bond after police and prosecutors say she attacked, groped and exposed herself to two elderly women.

Police arrested Sandra Stroughter, of Westchester Drive, Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Crum and Four Mile Run roads on outstanding warrants for two counts of public indecency and sexual imposition.

According to police, a 72-year-old woman, a resident at the Goodwill Apartments on Hillman Street, told officers she was in the apartment lobby in early April when she saw Stroughter, who is a nurses’ assistant working somewhere in the building, fighting with another nurses’ assistant in an open elevator. The woman said Stroughter was tearing off the other assistant’s shirt as the woman screamed for help.

The 72-year-old woman said she screamed for Stroughter to stop, but Stroughter then grabbed both her breasts. Reports say the woman told officers Stroughter forced her and a third women who tried to intervene into a bathroom, exposed herself and asked if they wanted to touch her.

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