A 22-year-old former Kansas University student pleaded no contest Thursday to aggravated sexual battery after handcuffing, fondling and kissing a classmate against her will in November 2014.

Christopher John Colvin

Christopher John Colvin was found guilty of the aggravated sexual battery charge after accepting a plea deal that Senior Assistant District Attorney Eve Kemple offered. In the negotiation, Kemple agreed to dismiss two other charges Colvin faced in the case: sexual battery and violation of a protection order.

In Colvin’s January preliminary hearing, his 21-year-old victim testified that on the night of Nov. 10 she went to Colvin’s studio apartment for a voice lesson. Colvin, who was a music education major at KU at the time, asked the woman to be his voice student to fulfill a requirement for a class.

When the “lesson” began, Colvin told the woman to close her eyes, she said. Once she did, the defendant handcuffed her wrists in front of her body and told her he would uncuff her if she kissed him.

The woman said she told the defendant she did not have romantic feelings for him, but kissed him because she felt “helpless” and “without control” in the restraints, she said.

Colvin then touched her breasts, lifted her shirt and began kissing her chest against her will, the woman said. When Colvin unlocked the handcuffs to remove the woman’s shirt, she said she was able to get away.

As she was leaving, the woman testified, Colvin asked her, “Are you going to call the police?”

The following day, the woman met with a police officer who asked her to make a recorded call to Colvin.

During the phone call, Colvin made a series of incriminating statements, said Lawrence Police Officer Tim Froese. Colvin said he “wasn’t in the right mind” and that he “wanted to feel in control and needed to control something.”

Colvin was arrested shortly after the phone call and booked into the Douglas County Jail. He posted a $40,000 bond the following day and was ordered not to have contact with the victim, though he and the victim had a class together that semester. The court allowed Colvin to attend that class, but ordered him not to talk to the woman.

The woman, who was also a KU School of Music student, testified in January that she had transferred to another university after KU’s fall 2014 semester ended.

After being found guilty Thursday of aggravated sexual battery, Colvin is now required to register as a sex offender for the next 25 years, Douglas County District Judge Sally Pokorny said.

Pokorny scheduled Colvin’s sentencing hearing for Nov. 18. Depending on Colvin’s criminal history, he faces anywhere from 31 months to 136 months in prison. However, as part of his plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to recommend that the judge order Colvin to serve his sentence on probation rather than in prison.