Judge sentences Othman to 90 days on amended assault charges

By Seth Boyes,

Tuesday, December 24, 2024 10:06 am

Nandoya Ramadhan Othman

A court has sentenced an area man to 90 days in prison, after he pleaded guilty late last month to separate criminal counts of assault. 

Nandoya Ramadhan Othman was accused of rape earlier this year, authorities initially charged the 20-year-old with third-degree sexual abuse — a Class C felony — but prosecutors later agreed to amend charges against Othman as part of a plea agreement. A court returned that original agreement, saying it did not address at least two specifics of the proposed sentencing — specifically the potential extension of a protective order and requirements of the sex offender registry. Revised documents were filed Dec. 6 and the court pronounced its sentence the same day. 

Othman was arrested after a 17-year-old female told Decorah Police officers on July 18 she had been raped by Othman earlier that day. The officers were initially responding to a possible fight in the parking lot of the Decorah Walmart — a criminal complaint said the individuals involved in the disturbance “stated they were not fighting but just slap-boxing.” The officers observed scrapes on some of the individuals’ legs and bodies, which the group attributed to their time jumping into rocky portions of the Upper Iowa River earlier that day near Will Baker Park — about 3 miles west of the local Walmart. The complaint specified the officers also saw blood on the 17-year-old girl’s pants as well as a red abrasion on her neck.

Full article in the December 19 Decorah Leader.

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