(2-3-24) Brandon Smathers (33) was indicted in two separate cases in both January and December of 2023. Smathers pleaded guilty this week to one count of rape and felonious assault in one case, and to one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor in the other in his Darke County Common Pleas Court appearance. Smathers was known to both of his victims.
As part of a plea agreement, one count of attempted rape, four counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, and three counts of sexual battery were dismissed in the first case. In the second case, three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor were dismissed.
Charges according to the Darke County Jail records….
Smathers was accused of sexually assaulting two 14-year-old girls. One was assaulted between December 2021 and September 2022, while the other reported being assaulted between January 2022 and May 2022, according to court records.
Smathers was originally arrested on December 11th in Allegheny County Virginia.
He is scheduled to be sentenced later this month.
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