A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology basketball player charged with sexually assaulting a woman as she slept in her dorm will avoid prison time.
Samson Donick, of Tiburon, California, was sentenced Tuesday to five years’ probation and 1,000 hours of community service. He was also ordered to undergo sex offender treatment.
Prosecutors said Donick assaulted the woman after he entered her Boston University dorm room looking for someone else.
Prosecutors struck a deal with Donick’s attorneys for him to plead guilty to lesser charges after the victim said it would be too emotionally difficult for her to testify at trial.
The woman said in court that the assault has forever changed her life and urged Donick to “live each day with a little reminder of what you did and make up for it.”