Rochester man re-sentenced to prison for rape of teenager, probation violation
Trenton Erickson / Olmsted County ADC, June 2024
(ABC 6 News) – A Rochester man was sentenced to 36 months, or 3 years at the MN Correctional Facility in St. Cloud June 21, for sexually assaulting a Taopi teenager in 2022.
Trenton Charles Erickson, formerly of Taopi, then Stewartville, was previously sentenced to probation for the rape.
Erickson was taken into custody in May for an alleged Olmsted County sexual assault which, the court determined, was a violation of his probation conditions.
Erickson received credit for 118 days spent in Olmsted and Mower County custody, and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation following his release.
He was scheduled to be sentenced for a second rape at the same 2022 Taopi house party as in his first sexual assault case–but the details of that June 21 sentencing had not been posted publicly Friday afternoon.
Instead, Erickson is scheduled to appear for a new hearing July 19 related to his second Taopi rape case, as well as a pretrial hearing in his Rochester sexual assault case.
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(ABC 6 News) – A Rochester man is scheduled to appear in Mower County Court Friday for an alleged sexual assault probation violation, and one sentencing.
Trenton Charles Erickson, formerly of Taopi, then Stewartville, was previously sentenced to probation for the rape of a teenager at a 2022 house party.
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His sentencing for the rape of a second teen at the same party was scheduled for June 21.
Rochester police arrested Erickson in May on a charge of 5th-degree criminal sexual conduct–nonconsensual sexual contact, after a woman told police he had repeatedly groped her and made sexual advances during a social gathering.
Erickson is currently held in the Olmsted County ADC on $200,000 bail with or without conditions.
The Mower County Jail requested Erickson’s transfer ahead of his June 21 probation violation hearing and sentencing.
His next hearing on the charge of 5th-degree criminal sexual conduct has not been scheduled. However, the Olmsted County attorney’s office filed a motion to seek an aggravated, or harsher-than-usual sentence considering Erickson’s two other criminal sexual conduct convictions.