Man pleads guilty to groping West Seattle joggers
Apr 2, 2012, 4:22 PM | Updated: 5:52 pm
A man that claimed he only “ran into a few people” plead guilty to assault with sexual motivation on Monday.
Duane Starkenburg said that he went to Lincoln Park in West Seattle to work out, and just happened to check out the women jogging in the park because they were “half-naked” and wearing spandex.
On three separate occasions 48-year-old Starkenburg grabbed a woman and face-planted into her bottom.
When first arrested for the assaults Starkenburg had told reporters that he had played football for half of his life and ‘knew how to tackle someone.’
As Starkenburg faced his upcoming trial this week, he decided instead to plead guilty to two counts of Assault Second Degree and one count of Assault Third Degree with Sexual Motivation.
In an unrelated case, Starkenburg plead guilty to a charge of Child Molestation Second Degree for sexually assaulting a girl who was 9 or 10 years old, an incident that occurred approximately ten years ago and was recently reported.
Prosecutors say they will recommend 116 months when Starkenburg is sentenced on April 13.
