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A California resident is being extradited backmost to the U.S. Thursday aft allegedly sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania assemblage pupil successful 2013 and past reportedly messaging her connected Facebook "So I raped you" years later.
Ian Cleary, who was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service, was handed implicit to American authorities contiguous astatine Charles de Gaulle Airport successful Paris, France, prosecutors told The Associated Press.
Cleary, 31, of Saratoga, California, was detained successful April successful Metz aft a three-year search. He has been held successful custody pending extradition proceedings since his arrest. The Appeal Court successful Metz ruled successful July that helium could beryllium extradited.
An apprehension warrant accuses Cleary of stalking an 18-year-old Gettysburg College pupil astatine a enactment successful 2013, sneaking into her dorm and sexually assaulting her portion she texted friends for help. He was a 20-year-old Gettysburg pupil astatine the time, but didn’t instrumentality to campus.
FLASHBACK: COLLEGE RAPE SUSPECT STILL ON THE LOOSE 2 YEARS AFTER EERIE MESSAGE TO VICTIM
The accuser, Shannon Keeler, had a rape exam done the aforesaid day. She gathered witnesses and grounds and spent years urging officials to record charges. She went to the authorities again successful 2021 aft discovering Facebook messages that seemed to travel from Cleary’s account.
"So I raped you," the sender wrote successful a drawstring of messages.
"I’ll ne'er bash it to anyone ever again," "I request to perceive your voice," and "I’ll commune for you," work immoderate of the different messages.
According to the June 2021 warrant, constabulary verified that the Facebook relationship utilized to nonstop the messages belonged to Cleary. He allegedly sent the messages successful 2020 portion Keeler and her fellow were connected a play trip.
In 2023, Andrea Levy, Keeler's lawyer and the ineligible manager for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, said her lawsuit has "had to propulsion and propulsion and enactment herself retired there" portion Cleary has "literally gone connected with his life."
"It’s hard to measurement that interaction connected her arsenic a quality being [and on] her family, her partner," Levy said astatine the time. "There’s a cost. There’s a existent quality cost. It’s someone’s life."
Cleary near Gettysburg College and went connected to postgraduate from Santa Clara University, worked for Tesla, past moved to France for respective years, according to his blog, which touts his self-published medieval fiction.
The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape did not instantly respond Thursday to a petition for remark by Fox News Digital.
Fox News’ Audrey Conklin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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