The fourth man involved in an October 2017 jail rape case was sentenced Thursday morning for intimidation.
Kosciusko County Superior Court I Judge David Cates sentenced Tyler Ray Martin, 20, of Albion, on a level 6 felony intimidation charge to 2-1/2 years in the Indiana Department of Corrections, consecutive to Martin’s sentences in cases in three other counties. He received no jail time credit because any he earned went to his other cases.
Martin also was ordered to reimburse the county $300 for his appointed counsel and pay court costs.
“I agree with your attorney,” Cates told Martin. “You need to be out and working. You chose a different path.”
Martin had faced an additional charge of aiding, inducing or causing rape, a level 3 felony, but that was dropped. He pleaded to the intimidation charge on Aug. 30.
Timothy Freeman, then 23, faced charges of rape and intimidation. Danny Combs, then 18, and Christopher Orr, then 20, faced charges of aiding a rape, criminal confinement and intimidation.
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In his statements to Cates, Martin said he didn’t want to make excuses for what he did. He said he’s tried to improve his life over the last 10 months.
Cates told him the record he has is “horrible.” He said he has a substantial criminal history.
