PARIS — A Norway man who pleaded guilty to a sex charge in September minutes before his trial was to begin will serve 90 days in jail for assaulting a teenage girl.
David W. McDaniels, 51, pleaded guilty to the assault charge in Oxford County Superior Court. Charges of unlawful sexual contact and unlawful sexual touching were dropped.
He will serve 90 days in jail, plus a year of probation during which he is not allowed contact with females under 18, and must pay $10 to the victims’ compensation fund. Justice Robert Clifford ordered McDaniels to undergo a sex offender evaluation and follow recommendations from the evaluation as part of his probation.
At McDaniels’ sentencing, the mother of the girl said her daughter had been traumatized by the event. “She still cries all the time because of what has been done to her,” she said. “She wakes up frequently during the night because of terror Mr. McDaniels caused her.”
The girl wrote a statement and had an advocate from the Rape Education and Crisis Hotline read it to the court.
“I cannot be around older men for a lone time,” she wrote. “It makes me antsy.” She said 90 days was too short a sentence for McDaniels.
In a brief statement to the court, McDaniels said the girl was overly dramatic.
On Sept. 19, before his trial on four charges of gross sexual assault, McDaniels pleaded no contest to a single charge of unlawful sexual contact, a Class D offense. He was sentenced to 364 days, all suspended, plus a year of probation. He will be on the state Sex Offender Registry for 15 years for that offense.
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