Hunter
11/17/21
A Solon man was sentenced earlier this week to four years in prison for alleged sexual abuse involving a child and a woman.
The Gazette reports that 50-year-old Robert Egesdal entered an Alford plea in September ahead of trial to amended charges of indecent contact with a child and assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. Both charges are aggravated misdemeanors.
Egesdal was originally charged with four counts of third-degree sexual abuse, which are Class C felonies.
According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Egesdal began a pattern of sexually assaulting a young girl at his residence starting in 2014 when she was 12. The alleged abuse continued through April of 2019. The victim told investigators that she resisted Egesdal’s advances on numerous occasions, but he persisted and forced himself on her multiple times.
The alleged assaults happened when Egesdal was watching the girl while her mother was at work.
The sexual abuse of the woman reportedly occurred between October 2017 and June 2019.
6th District Judge Paul Miller ran the two-year sentences accepted in the Alford plea consecutively for a total of four years. Egesdal was also ordered to be on the sex offender registry for life. He’s also barred from having any contact with his victims for five years.