A 54-year-old Waynesboro resident has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting an autistic man after a night of Augusta bar hopping.
A Burke County jury found Robert Lee Mapp Jr. guilty Thursday of aggravated sodomy in a 2021 incident that prosecutors say demonstrated a history of Mapp “getting young men intoxicated to the point of blackout and then sodomizing them,” the Augusta Judicial Curcuit’s District Attorney’s Office said Friday.
“We are safer today for having one less sexual predator in our community,” District Attorney Jared T. Williams said after the trial. “We are grateful for the jury’s service in finding justice for this victim.”
Williams credited investigators on the case with successfully pursuing “extensive digital forensic evidence in the case, which allowed prosecutors to establish Mapp’s attempts to cover up his crime.”
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