SPOKANE, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri high school graduate who was initially
charged with sexually assaulting one classmate and threatening to assault
another classmate has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.
The Springfield News-Leader reports 21-year-old Tanner Brown pleaded guilty
last week to peace disturbance. He was given a suspended 180-day sentence and
placed on two years of unsupervised probation.
Brown and another student, Chandler Brown, were originally charged with two
felonies and three misdemeanors after allegedly restraining and sexually
assaulting a male classmate in a baseball dugout at Spokane High School in 2016
and restraining and threatening to assault another student a year later. The two
Browns are not related.
Chandler Brown is scheduled for trial in September on the original five
charges.
The family of one of the alleged victims sued school district in 2017. The
lawsuit is pending.
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