By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 24-year-old Stillwater man avoided a jury trial this week by pleading guilty last week to sexually abusing the 13-year-old daughter of his now ex-girlfriend, court records show.
Clayton Eugene Rogers was sentenced to three years in prison followed by seven years of probation by District Judge Phillip Corley, who ordered him to have no contact with his victim, comply with the Sex Offender Registration Act, and pay the cost of his incarceration.
Rogers was arrested in Kansas and has been held for the past 14 months in the Payne County Jail on $75,000 bail, which the judge refused to reduce, court records show.
Stillwater Police Lt. Kyle Bruce wrote in an affidavit that on April 10, 2019, a report was made to police that a 13-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted.
When the girl was interviewed at the Saville Center in Stillwater, she said she was in her mother’s bedroom asleep when she was awakened by Rogers’ attempting to remove her clothing, the affidavit said.
The girl said when she asked Rogers what he was doing, he responded by asking her to have sex with him, the affidavit said.
The girl said when she declined, “Rogers told her he would tell her mother she was attempting to have sex with him — if she did not have sex with him,” the affidavit said.
The girl said “she was scared and agreed to have sex,” the affidavit said.
The sexual act occurred at her mother’s house in Stillwater in March of 2019, the affidavit said.
If Rogers had been convicted by a jury of child sexual abuse, he could have been given as much as a life prison term, court records show.
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