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Riley Hayes in Carroll County Superior Court over Webex on Nov. 3. (DAYMOND STEER SCREENSHOT)

OSSIPEE — Riley Hayes, the Jackson teenager accused of sexual assault and facing 20 years in prison, has offered to plead guilty to two misdemeanors in return for a one-year jail sentence, according to recently filed paperwork. 

Hayes, now 19, was charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault in February 2021 in connection with an incident that allegedly took place Oct. 17, 2020, in Conway, when the female victim was “physically helpless to resist.”

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annimac

Reading this makes me sick. This little jerk has only to plead guilty and he gets off with a year in prison instead of 20? He lost his college housing and has been ostracized in his home community? Is this supposed to evoke sympathy for him? What about the girl he drugged and violated?

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