"I was selfish, immature and caught up in drugs and alcohol," he said. "It was not the person I am today."
Gemmel, given the opportunity to speak during Monday's sentencing, apologized in front of Varland and her parents, adding that he's now in a relationship he works hard at every day. "I don't fear what you could do to me at trial," she said. "I fear what trial could do to me." Varland said she accepted Gemmel's plea deal because she was worried that a trial, which had been rescheduled for December, would be moved again, this time interfering with her senior year of college. The Des Moines Register generally does not identify victims in sex abuse cases, but Varland told the Register in an interview earlier this year that she wanted to go on the record about her experience. He faces two years of probation as a result.
Gemmel on Monday accepted a plea deal that replaced his abuse charge, a felony, with false imprisonment, a serious misdemeanor, court records show. Kolton Gemmel of Webster City was arrested in April 2018 and charged with third-degree sex abuse after Natalie Varland, 20, told police he'd held her down and had non-consensual sex with her while she repeatedly told him to stop, court records show. A 20-year-old man accused of sexually abusing an Iowa State University student will not face prison time, court records show.
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