On July 17, Gilbert pleaded guilty to felonious assault, a second-degree felony; abduction, a third-degree felony; and gross sexual imposition, a fourth-degree felony.
On Wednesday, Judge Greg Howard sentenced Gilbert to four years in prison. That includes three years for felonious assault and one year for gross sexual imposition. The abduction charge was merged.
Gilbert, who was free on bond awaiting trial, faced a maximum of nine years in prison.
According to the police report, an Oxford police officer described hearing screams just before seeing a Miami University student wearing only one shoe run toward him early on the morning of Sept. 29, 2018.
The student told the officer that a man had thrown her to the ground and punched her so many times in her right ear that she was having trouble hearing out of it.
While being attacked, the woman said she saw the lights from in officer’s police cruiser, which was stopped nearby as he wrote a ticket for a vehicle registration violation.
She later identified Gilbert, whom police stopped nearby on East Central Avenue, as her attacker.
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