State v. Sokell

Defendant was convicted of, among other things, one count of sexual abuse in the first degree, ORS 163.427, for rubbing the buttocks of an eight-year-old girl whom he encountered in a public library; the touching went on for several minutes, ending when the victim’s mother spotted defendant and he fled. Defendant had been sentenced twice before for other felony sex crimes: once in 1996, for first-degree sexual abuse (defendant touched the breast of a 12-year-old girl at a store), and once in 2012, for attempted first-degree sexual abuse (defendant rubbed a 7-year-old girl on her side under…