A former Johns Creek High School student was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 2013, the Fulton County District Attorney's office said Tuesday.
The jury was already deliberating when Benjamin Holm, 21, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and statutory rape, the DA's office said. After graduating high school in 2013, Holm attended Loyola University Chicago, where he studied business and was a member of the golf team for three years.
In April 2013, Holm, then 18, sexually assaulted a girl on the playground at the Country Club of the South after the two attended a party, according to Johns Creek police.
Holm was initially charged with statutory rape, a misdemeanor crime in Georgia, and entered a “not guilty” plea, according to a spokesman for the DA. But the county solicitor investigated the case and determined felony charges were appropriate, the DA’s office said Tuesday. In April 2015, Holm’s case was transferred to the DA’s office, and a year later, the Fulton County grand jury indicted the case.
On Dec. 5, Holm pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years, including 10 to serve and the remainder on probation, according to the Fulton DA’s office. He was booked into the Fulton jail, where he remained Tuesday night awaiting transfer to prison.
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