Man Charged With Raping 2 Women Gets Probation

John Enochs will only serve 1 day in jail
By Michael Harthorne,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 25, 2016 12:04 PM CDT
Man Charged With Raping 2 Women Gets Probation
John Enochs   (Monroe County Jail)

A former Indiana University student charged with raping two women will get off with a year of probation and one day in jail, WXIN reports. John Enochs took a plea deal and was sentenced Thursday, pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery. According to the New York Daily News, it's unclear why prosecutors decided to drop the rape charges—felonies punishable by up to 16 years in prison—against Enochs. But that didn't stop the sentence from immediately being compared to the infamously lenient one issued against Stanford swimmer Brock Turner earlier this month.

A woman says she was at an April 2015 party at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity when she went inside to use the restroom, WISH reports. She says the next thing she remembers is being naked and alone with an unknown man having sex with her. She says she told him to stop multiple times, but he wouldn't. She suffered a laceration to her genitals in the attack. Authorities say security video showed Enochs enter the room with the victim and leave 24 minutes later. Police found a similar case from 2013, and that victim agreed to work with authorities; DNA evidence, eyewitness statements, and IDs from the women led in September to the two rape charges against Enochs. Indiana University has been criticized for how it handles sexual assaults on campus and currently has three Title IX complaints against it. (Some Aussie cadets claim they were forced to rape each other.)

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