“Do you understand?” Clark Newberry asked the defendant on Thursday. Melton also will be required to register as a sex offender with lifetime supervision. She also ordered him to undergo mental health treatment and said he cannot have any contact with the victims or the victims’ families. One girl testified that Melton blackmailed her for nude photographs, and another teen said he had threatened to post nude pictures of her on social media unless she had sex with him.Īs a condition of probation, Clark Newberry ordered Melton to have no social media accounts and said he is not allowed to send or receive nude images. In 2018, six teens testified to a grand jury that Melton either forced sex on them or blackmailed them for nude images, according to court transcripts.įour of the girls said they were raped, and at least two attacks allegedly occurred on school grounds. He was later disciplined for sexual deviancy at three separate middle schools, court documents state. Lawyers for Melton have said that he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of an older woman before he was disciplined in 2011 at Bracken Elementary School for sexually harassing another student. Prosecutors have said that allegations of Melton’s sexual deviancy started when he was 9 years old. Melton was charged in the adult court system in connection with the alleged attacks that occurred between 20 while he was a student at Shadow Ridge High School. “But if he does turn his life around and become a productive member of society, then he’ll be able to avoid a prison sentence.” “If he violates probation, he’s looking at a lengthy prison sentence,” Grasso said after the hearing. His attorney, Gabriel Grasso, said Melton had reached a “very favorable plea agreement” through the settlement conference. Melton, who is now 21, did not give a statement during the sentencing hearing. “Under the totality of the circumstances and taking into consideration the victims and solely the victims, I’m going to go along with the guilty plea agreement,” the judge said.Ĭhief Deputy District Attorney Jacob Villani said the majority of the victims did not want to go through a trial. If she didn’t accept the plea, the case would have gone to trial. If he violates any terms of his probation, Melton would have to serve between 16 and 40 years in prison.Ĭlark Newberry said she had to sentence him to the jail time with probation, instead of prison, because the guilty plea had been reached through a settlement conference.

Court records show that he pleaded guilty in March, more than four years after he was indicted, to two felony counts of attempted sexual assault.Īfter a year in the Clark County Detention Center, Melton will be placed on five years probation with electronic monitoring, District Judge Tara Clark Newberry said Thursday.

Maysen Melton was 16 when he was indicted on two dozen felony counts, including charges of sexual assault, kidnapping and battery with intent to commit sexual assault. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) man indicted in 2018 and accused of raping at least four high school classmates was sentenced on Thursday to one year in jail.

Maysen Melton, center, enters the courtroom for his sentencing hearing at the Regional Justice Center on Thursday, Aug.

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