{"id":73666,"date":"2025-11-28T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73666\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:50:08","slug":"oakland-man-settles-rape-case-by-pleading-no-contest-to-assault-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73666\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland man settles rape case by pleading no contest to assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 Prosecutors have settled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/11\/08\/oakland-police-were-interviewing-a-woman-over-missing-daughter-when-she-texted-her-mom-for-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a rape case<\/a> here by allowing the defendant to plead to a lesser crime of assault for a mix of jail, probation, and monitoring, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Conley, 23, pleaded no contest to assault likely to produce great bodily injury; in exchange, prosecutors dropped charges against him that included rape, forcible oral copulation, forcible sodomy and unlawful sexual intercourse. The case involved allegations that Conley sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl after they met on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In return for his plea, Conley will be sentenced to a mix of conditions: He must remain in jail until January, at which time he\u2019ll technically be sentenced to a year of county jail, but will be allowed to serve the term on house arrest with an ankle monitor, according to court records. He\u2019ll also receive a two-year probation term and be discharged to San Joaquin County.<\/p>\n<p>Conley was arrested last year. At the time, the girl told police she knew Conley from social media and contacted him for a phone charger because her cellphone was running out of battery. When he arrived in a vehicle he convinced her to get in the car with him and they drove off to another part of Oakland, where he sexually assaulted her, she told authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The girl texted her mom for help at the precise moment that her mother was filing a missing persons report with Oakland police, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 Prosecutors have settled a rape case here by allowing the defendant to plead to a lesser&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,143,863,145,144,2452,43025,43026],"class_list":["post-73666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-crime","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police","tag-oakland-rape-arrest","tag-oakland-sexual-assault-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}