Former Bulldog wrestler turned convicted sex offender sentenced to three years in prison

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- At 25 years old, a one-time Fresno State student-athlete is backmost successful jailhouse aft years retired connected enslaved and has to registry arsenic a enactment offender.

"I bash not privation this mistake to specify me," Isaiah Perez said successful Fresno County tribunal connected Tuesday arsenic helium asked for mercy.

Perez - erstwhile arrested for rape - served intoxicant and drugged a 15-year-old successful November 2020, according to witnesses. They antecedently testified that helium got the miss intoxicated and past forced her into having sex.

"I was young, reckless, and tremendously conscionable dumb," Perez said. "I judge afloat work for each of my actions."

Administrators dismissed Perez from Fresno State's wrestling squad and called the incidental astatine the off-campus Bulldog Village apartments "disturbing."

Perez denied it for years, but arsenic prosecutors prepared for proceedings -- and with a beingness condemnation looming, helium pleaded nary contention to intersexual artillery and unlawful intercourse.

"This azygous incidental is not typical of his behavior, and determination is nary denotation [that] helium would not beryllium palmy connected probation," Perez's defence lawyer said.

Prosecutors pushed backmost connected Tuesday arsenic they highlighted the victim's wishes.

"In my treatment with her, earlier we were doing the resolution, she did privation the suspect held accountable with immoderate custody clip for his actions," the authoritative said of her speech with the confidential victim.

The justice past denied probation and sentenced Perez to 3 years successful situation immediately.

The courtroom lawman swiftly moved arsenic Perez went from a escaped antheral hoping for probation to a captive successful seconds.

Perez's loved ones seemed amazed arsenic they shook their heads and cried.

"He took vantage of a susceptible idiosyncratic erstwhile she could not instrumentality attraction of herself," Fresno County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Negin said.

Perez has 60 days to entreaty his sentence.

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