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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Bus driver sentenced to 10 to 25 years for assault on Witt student
A Columbus man was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in a West Virginia prison, having pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in connection with an April sexual assault of a Wittenberg student.
According to the Intelligencer, Wheeling News-Register, Leonard Braynen Jr. 34, a Bahamian national, could be deported after he serves his prison time.
Braynen was employed by the Columbus-based Urban Express Bus Company and transported the students Friday, April 3, to Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, W.Va.
About 55 students were attending the fraternity-sponsored weekend trip, Wittenberg officials had said.
According to court documents, the student involved told law enforcement officials she had consumed alcohol on the way to the resort and had passed out on the floor in a bedroom of the lodge, where the other students were having a party. She said she awoke later to find a man sexually assaulting her.
Several witnesses told police they saw Braynen leave the darkened bedroom and rejoin the party. Friends of the young woman immediately went in to check on her and found her crying and saying she had been raped.
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