Ex-Baylor frat president takes plea deal in rape case, gets probation

WACO (KWKT) — A judge accepted the plea deal Monday morning between McLennan County prosecutors and a former Baylor University student once accused of rape.

24-year-old Jacob Walter Anderson, who was indicted on four counts of sexual assault in connection with a suspected rape in which the victim was left lying outside unconscious, pleaded no contest in October to one count of unlawful restraint. He was also sentenced to three years unadjudicated probation, meaning it will be wiped from his record, and will also not be required to register as a sex offender. 

Baylor University expelled Anderson and kicked Phi Delta Theta off campus after a Title IX hearing on the accusations.

Former McLennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell is representing the young woman in the case, and filed paperwork with the court objecting to the plea bargain.

In it, he says Assistant District Attorney Hilary LaBorde earlier promised not to accept a plea from Anderson.

But then she emailed the victim’s family earlier this month, saying she accepted an offer for probation on the charge of Felony Unlawful Restraint, Not Sexual Assault – which means he will not have to register as a sex offender.