Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 38-year-old Jason Hari pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller to one count of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree.

The defendant admitted that on August 30, 2014, he sexually abused a female victim by forcible complusion inside his apartment on North Main Street in the Village of Angola.

Hari faces a maximum of 7 years in prison when he is sentenced on Thursday, December 20 at 9:30 a.m.

DA Flynn commends the investigative work of Chief Douglas Czora of the Evans Police Department.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Cathleen M. Roemer of the DA’s Special Victims Bureau.