Athens serial rapist changes plea to guilty, sentenced to 41 years in prison

A man who raped two people and tried to attack a third person near the Ohio University campus was sentenced to 41 years in prison Tuesday.Shawn Lawson Jr. was arrested in May in connection with three sexual assault incidents that happened between 2006 and 2015. He was charged with two counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, three counts of felonious assault, three counts of kidnapping and two counts of aggravated burglary.Lawson initially pleaded not guilty to all counts but changed his ple