photo by: Chris Conde/Journal-World

Andreios Samuel Alexander is pictured during a plea hearing on Feb 9, 2023, in Douglas County District Court. Alexander was convicted of aggravated sexual battery of a 33-year-old woman who was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

A Lawrence man entered a no contest plea on Thursday in Douglas County District Court to a single count of felony aggravated sexual battery after he was initially charged with three counts of rape.

The man, Andreios Samuel Alexander, 27, was charged in May 2022, and in July he began negotiating a plea agreement with the state to resolve the charges, as the Journal-World reported. The original charges were in connection with multiple incidents between November 2021 and March 2022, according to charging documents. The charges were amended from three felony counts of rape to one felony count of aggravated sexual battery as part of the plea agreement.

During the hearing Thursday, Deputy District Attorney Joshua Seiden said that if the case had gone to trial on the aggravated sexual battery charge, the state would have presented evidence to show that on March 1, 2022, a health care worker with Haskell Indian Nations University’s adult protection services reported to police that a 33-year-old woman had been sexually assaulted and that Alexander was suspected. The woman had mental incapacities due to having been born with fetal alcohol syndrome, Seiden said.

When police interviewed Alexander about the allegations, Alexander told them that he had engaged in sexual conduct with the woman, whose mental condition Alexander acknowledged, Seiden said.

Judge Stacey Donovan said that the charge Alexander has been convicted of falls into a “border box” on the Kansas sentencing guidelines and that he could get probation or prison. Donovan also said that Alexander would have to register as a sex offender for 25 years. She set his sentencing for March 27.

After the hearing, Alexander was returned to the Douglas County Jail, where he has been in custody on a $75,000 cash or surety bond since his arrest.