Hopwood man receives sentence for sexual assault
A Hopwood man charged with having sexual contact with an underage girl in 2007 was sentenced to nine to 24 months in a state prison on Wednesday in Fayette County Court. Adam Lee Robinson, 20, pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors last month in the case. State police charged that in December 2007, he had sex with the girl, now 13 years old, when he was 18 and she was 12.
The Herald-Standard does not publish the names of sex assault victims.
Robinson met the girl at a business in South Union Township, police said, and later, he and his brother picked up the child and drove her to a home on Shellie Street.
There, police said Robinson and the girl had sex and smoked marijuana.
Robinson entered the general plea after he was unsuccessful in a bid to get the charges thrown out.
His attorney had claimed that the case was not brought to court in a timely manner, and asked a judge to dismiss all of the charges.
That motion was denied, and Robinson later entered a general guilty plea before President Judge Conrad B. Capuzzi.