A Wexford man on Thursday was found to be a sexual offender under Megan’s Law and was given a lengthy probation sentence after pleading no contest to charges filed for assaulting a woman in a Slippery Rock University dorm room in 2018.

Jesse John King, 25, was found to be a Tier 1 sexual offender under Megan’s Law and was sentenced to serve 54 months of probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint and indecent assault in Butler County Common Pleas Court.

University police filed those charges and other charges against King, who was not a student at SRU, following the April 5, 2018, incident that took place in a North Hall dorm room after he and the victim had been drinking. The victim did not attend the sentencing hearing.

Police said King and the victim had been drinking beer and vodka in another dorm room in North Hall before returning to her room, where the woman allowed King to spend the night before she fell asleep. Sometime overnight, police said, King sexually assaulted the woman, who woke up the next day to find herself in pain and her clothes in disarray.

Later that day, police said King admitted in a text message to assaulting the victim while she was sleeping. The woman’s roommate, who was present in the room during the alleged assault, also gave investigators a statement, according to court documents.

The other charges — felony counts of rape of an unconscious victim and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with an unconscious victim and a misdemeanor count of providing liquor to a minor — were not addressed at the hearing.

Judge Kelley Streib sentenced King to consecutively serve 30 months of probation for the unlawful restraint charge and 24 months for the indecent assault charge, and $1,000 fines for each offense.

A sex offender evaluation found that King is not a sexually violent predator, but he is a Tier 1 offender who must report to state police for 15 years, Streib said.

King will have to report his residence, employment, education and vehicle ownership, and submit to photographs, fingerprinting and DNA sampling, she said. Terms of his county probation include having no contact with the victim, attending sex offender counseling, not visiting adult establishments, not using dating websites, not picking up hitchhikers and reporting intimate relationships.