A 33-year-old Tacoma man who pleaded guilty to burglary and indecent liberties for breaking into apartments at a Pacific Lutheran University dorm last year and groping two students was sentenced Wednesday to five years to life in prison.
Dylan Thomas Robinson broke into the college’s South Hall in the early hours of May 14, 2023, in Parkland by removing a window screen on the first floor and then entering an apartment occupied by three women. According to Robinson’s guilty plea, he grabbed one woman’s arm and chest before he left. A little more than an hour later, he went into another apartment where he grabbed a woman’s crotch and breasts while she slept.
Standing in a Pierce County Superior Court room Wednesday morning, that woman recalled the details of the sexual assault, awaking to Robinson standing over her with his hands on her and having to fight him off while he tried to jump onto her raised bed. She said she realized the man’s pants were down while chasing him out of the room.