ROCHESTER — A Stillwater man was given probation for sexually assaulting a vulnerable adult in 2021.
Harold David Short, 60, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct on Jan. 23, 2024.
According to court records, a witness contacted the Rochester Police Department and said Short had picked up the woman from a group home in Burnsville and brought her to St. Paul, Stillwater, Rochester and Alma, Wisconsin. The woman later told investigators Short had injected her with methamphetamine and then sexually assaulted her at a home in southwest Rochester in late December 2021.
Short later dropped the victim off at the Southeast Regional Crisis Center on Dec. 30, 2021.
The woman’s guardian told law enforcement that the woman has the mental capacity of someone between 11 and 14 years old.
Felony charges of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and using drugs to facilitate a crime were dismissed in the plea. Short was scheduled to be sentenced in April 2024, but failed to appear for the hearing.
Short was given four years of probation with a suspended sentence of 16 months in prison and credited with 72 days in jail.
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