Astoria man pleads guilty to sexual violence

Published 10:03 am Wednesday, December 18, 2019

An Astoria man was sentenced Wednesday to six months in jail and five years of supervised probation for sexual violence.

Caleb Jeffrey Hale, 20, pleaded guilty to sodomy in the third degree and strangulation.

If Hale’s probation is revoked he will serve five years in prison.

According to the prosecution, Hale forced a girl to perform oral sex on him in 2017 when he was 18 years old and she was 14 years old.

Hale’s charges and sentence were reduced because of his guilty plea.

“If I believed for one second that you had no chance at change, I would not have gone along with this agreement,” Judge Dawn McIntosh said during sentencing. 

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