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Sexual Assault

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Man Gets 1-2 Years After Plea Agreement in Baldwin Rape Case

Jamal Tompkins was charged with raping a mentally disabled girl, but he pleaded guilty only to sexual assault and corruption of minors.

The man whom Baldwin Borough police officers tracked down in Erie, PA, over a year ago on charges that he raped a mentally disabled girl in south Baldwin in September 2010 has been sentenced to approximately 1-2 years of confinement for sexual assault and corruption of minors. Jamal Tompkins pleaded guilty to those charges in front of Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Donna Jo McDaniel on Dec. 10 before McDaniel withdrew nine other charges and issued the sentence. McDaniel also sentenced Tompkins to five years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender. The nine withdrawn charges were rape-forcible compulsion, rape of a mentally disabled person, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse-forcible compulsion, …

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

UPDATE: Jury Trial for Leland Point Rapes

Dameon Anderson's trial started in October.

UPDATE: Anderson pled guilty to his charges, and as a result of his trial, was sentenced to between seven and 20 years in prison. As of April 6, he was confined at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution-Camp Hill. Dameon Anderson, 36, whom Baldwin Borough police charged with the rape of two females in his apartment at the Leland Point Apartments complex, will face a jury trial beginning on Oct. 11. The date was announced after a pretrial conference on Thursday. Both females, who were victimized at different times, told Baldwin Borough police that they met Anderson at Port Authority bus stops and that he claimed to be a screen actor. Both victims also said that they had phone conversations with him prior to the incidents. In …

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