KENNESAW, Ga. -- A former Kennesaw State Student will spend nearly 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple sexual assaults not far from campus.
On Monday, as jury selection was underway for his trial, Tyree Robert Mew pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated assault with intent to rape and one count of sodomy. The crimes occurred between September 2015 and March 2016 not far from the campus of the Cobb County university.
During that time, Mew sexually assaulted three women - two of them students - at different residences. Police said one of those attacks happened at a party in November 2015.
The district attorney's office commended the bravery of the women, who came forward "despite facing the scrutiny of family members, friends and members of the student body at KSU."
“One victim said that while she suffered from the sexual assault and negative attention, she now knows this Defendant will not attack another woman,” ADA Meredith Florio, the lead prosecutor on the case, said.
Superior Court Judge Robert Flournoy handed down a 30-year sentence with 18 of those years to be served in prison.
