Just Elected GOP Official Pleads Guilty To Sexual Assault

November 18, 2024 Crime, Republicans

Indianapolis’s Fox affiliate reports:

A current central Indiana county commissioner has pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case, days after being elected to his local County Council.

John D. Jessup – a current Commissioner for Hancock County’s District 1 – pled guilty this week in a Las Vegas court to one count of attempted sexual assault. The plea deal lowered Jessup’s charge from a Level A felony to a Level B felony – which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Last week, Jessup was elected to the Hancock County Council as one of three Republican candidates. He received over 15,000 votes while both Democrat challengers barely cracked 10,000 each.

Law & Crime reports:

The county commish is slated to be sentenced in April. As convicted felons cannot serve in office in Indiana, Jessup will have to resign. “It’s been my greatest honor serving the people of Hancock County and I’m deeply, deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry for the shame that I brought to the county,” Jessup told the Daily Reporter.

Prosecutors are reportedly requesting that Jessup serve between eight and 20 years in prison, while his attorneys are asking for probation.

Multiple witnesses reportedly told detectives that Jessup kept “feeding” the woman Long Island iced teas. The woman was reportedly so intoxicated that she needed a wheelchair to get to her room after arriving back at a hotel with Jessup.

What happens in Vegas…doesn’t always stay there.



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