A man who fled to Maine after killing a woman in a Boston hotel room in 2020 has been sentenced to up to 16 years for her death.

Aaron Parsons, 47, of South Paris, pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter and engaging in sexual conduct for a fee in Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts on Thursday, according to a Friday news release from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.

In March 2020, Sarah Dorany was discovered unresponsive on the floor of a hotel room by staff at the Verb Hotel, near Fenway Park, according to the district attorney’s statement. She was found with a pillow partially covering her face and reported dead at the scene. A medical examiner later ruled her cause of death to be mechanical asphyxiation.

Parsons lived in Revere, just outside Boston, at the time of Dorany’s death but fled to Maine after. He was arrested by the Maine Violent Offender Task Force as a fugitive from justice in August 2020 and was held at Oxford County Jail before being extradited to Massachusetts.

According to prosecutors, Parsons and Dorany met online and made plans to have dinner on March 11, 2020; Parsons had booked the hotel room to visit afterward. Hotel video footage showed the two entering the hotel building just after 8 p.m.

Investigators say Parsons then went to his apartment just before midnight, left shortly thereafter and returned about three hours later in different clothes. A few hours after that, he traveled to the Boston Seaport to discard his cellphone, which was also caught on video.

Parsons later told investigators he had no memory between dinner at the restaurant and four days later, when he woke up under a bridge in Cambridge, according to the district attorney’s release.

Superior Court Judge Mary Ames sentenced Parsons to 14-16 years in prison, followed by three years of probation.