WEST LAMPETER TOWNSHIP, PA — A Chester County man was sentenced to 13 to 35 years in state prison after pleading guilty to repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting an underage girl.
Judge Jeffrey Conrad sentenced Anthony Charles Lawrence, 44, of Coatesville, after he pleaded guilty Feb. 9 to three counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years of age, one count each of statutory sexual assault, rape forcible compulsion and unlawful contact with a minor and two counts of corruption of minors.
The case had been scheduled to begin trial the same day before Judge Conrad when Lawrence instead submitted the guilty plea and was sentenced…