A southwest Alaska man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a female family member will serve three months and be required to register as a sex offender.
Kenneth Napoka, 36, of Tuluksak pleaded guilty Wednesday to reduced charges of two class A misdemeanors.
He will serve three months, and be on probation for three years with a 14-month suspended sentence. Napoka is required to register as a sex offender for 15 years.
Napoka was arrested in September in an incident in which he allegedly strangled the family member with his hands and attempted to sexually assault her while she was intoxicated. He was originally charged with class C felony charges.
Robert Schiesser, the attorney representing the victim, called Napoka’s sentence fair, saying that it was a “C felony-type resolution in misdemeanor clothing.” By that Schiesser meant that the suspended sentence that Napoka received with a class A misdemeanor will turn out to be just four months shy of the sentence the defendant would have received had he been charged with a class C felony.
Schiesser said the resolution was appropriate to what the state could prove, since the victim could not provide much information from being inebriated at the time of the event.
There were several eyewitnesses, but they were “essentially trying to divert their eyes from what was happening,” Sheisser said.
