A sentencing hearing in Starke Circuit Court for a Knox man accused of rape is postponed to the end of October.
In court documents filed a day before his case was to go to trial, 59-year-old Samuel Allen withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to rape as a Level 3 Felony. The document states that, upon sentencing, a charge of habitual offender sentence enhancement will be dismissed as well as a petition to revoke probation.
The charge stems from an alleged incident on Sept. 19, 2018 at a home on Locust Drive in Knox. According to police, an unconscious woman who reportedly suffered a drug overdose was found slumped over the steering wheel in her car. After emergency personnel were able to revive the woman, she was transported to Memorial Hospital in South Bend. A Knox City Police Department officer noticed signs of possible rape and a kit was collected, according to the report filed in September of 2018.
A Level 3 Felony carries a sentence of 3 to 16 years in the Indiana Department of Corrections.
The sentencing hearing is now set for Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. CT in Starke Circuit Court.