A former Lemoyne resident who participated in the sexual assault of an inebriated coworker at his Hummel Avenue apartment in February 2022 will be sentenced to at least four and a half years in state prison.
Following a jury trial in August, Paul Wasser, now 46, and co-defendant Kelly Prosser were found guilty of raping an unconscious person, engaging in involuntary deviant sexual relations, and other offenses. Judge Christylee Peck of Cumberland County sentenced him on Tuesday.
In order to give birth before being imprisoned, Prosser’s sentence was postponed until January.
About a year after the woman initially told West Shore Regional Police that she had been sexually abused, the charges were brought in February 2023.
After all three had completed an evening shift at a restaurant in the Mechanicsburg area, the victim, who was 19 at the time, told police that she wanted to socialize, play darts, and watch a movie at Wasser and Prosser’s house on the 200 block of Hummel Avenue.
The lady, who PennLive is not naming in accordance with editorial policy not to identify victims of sex crimes without their agreement, claimed that Wasser started urging her to drink when she arrived at around 11 p.m.
Wasser gave her beer and shots of whiskey, she said jurors, and every time she put them down, he would push her to pick them up again and continue drinking.
The woman claimed that she eventually lost consciousness after feeling lightheaded. Later, she woke up on Wasser’s bed, naked, both defendants in varying states of nudity, and her clothes off.
She remembered hearing Wasser urge Prosser to have oral sex with the victim while he was fully naked and on top of her.
The victim went to the hospital the following day and was examined for sexual assault. According to authorities, forensic analysis of the material found there revealed that both defendants’ DNA had been found in her body.
Wasser and Prosser denied having intercourse with the lady in their own follow-up police interviews, but Prosser later admitted to an associate who testified during the trial that the woman had licked [the victim’s] pleasure spot.
According to Pennsylvania sentencing guidelines, Peck’s sentence is within the typical range for a first-time offender. In February 2029, Wasser, who has been detained at Cumberland County Prison since his conviction on August 22, 2024, may be eligible for release.
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