A 35-year-old man was sentenced on Monday, August 14, 2023, to 18-40 years in state prison for the rape of a girl in Richland Township.
Nicholas Hummel, of Farmhouse Lane, entered an open guilty plea in March to charges of rape of a child and related charges.
In addition to sentencing Hummel to state prison, Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey L. Finley also ordered him to undergo sex offender treatment in prison and have no contact with the victim, or any unsupervised contact with anyone under 18 – after being released.
Hummel was also declared a sexually violent predator by Judge Finley and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and participate in lifetime sex offender treatment as a result.