KINGMAN, Ariz. – A 36-year-old woman read a lengthy victim impact statement at the Oct. 6 sentencing hearing for the Golden Valley man convicted of sexually assaulting her. She told Mohave County Superior Court Judge Megan McCoy that trial conviction brings personal validation, but that her life is forever changed and robbed of any sense of peace, trust and security.
“I don’t want revenge, but I want safety,” the victim told the court. “I want to go to work and not look over my shoulder, and I want my home to be my home again.”
The trial jury acquitted Casey Schneider, 35, of two counts, but found him guilty of another sexual assault charge.
Schneider told Judge McCoy that the victim has habitually accused all of her former partners of impropriety. He complained she’s guilty of false allegation and “crying wolf.”
“It’s an assault on the dignity to true victims,” Schneider said.
Judge McCoy said the former couple should have severed a very toxic partnership and that the acrimony and animosity between them was very evident at trial.
“This was a very contentious relationship,” McCoy told Schneider. “What I see is a total lack of empathy.”
The judge said she hoped incarceration will help Schneider learn not to continue to litigate “blind anger and blame” in his brain. She imposed a seven-year term in the Arizona Department of Corrections.
