Bethlehem man faces sentencing for sex assault in casino bathroom
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Bethlehem man charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a bathroom at
Wind Creek Bethlehem casino pleaded no contest Friday to a crime that
will require him to register as a sex offender for 25 years.month recommend casino
Traver A. Tilley, 31, will be sentenced for indecent assault in January
by Northampton County President Judge Michael Koury Jr. Tilley faces
guidelines that recommend probation to nine months in jail as a minimum
sentence.
On March 18, 2018, the woman became intoxicated while
drinking at a nightclub inside the casino formerly known as the Sands
Casino Resort Bethlehem, according to court records. Tilley followed her
into the woman’s bathroom, before her next memory was waking up in a
bed at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill, said Assistant
District Attorney Tatum Wilson.
The woman believed she may have been
sexually assaulted and agreed to submit to sexual assault testing.
Though Tilley denied to police that he had any sexual contact with the
woman, the tests revealed his DNA on evidence investigators recovered,
police said.
By pleading no contest, Tilley admitted prosecutors
could prove the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt. For the purposes
of sentencing, it is considered the same as an admission of guilt.
