A former Kennesaw State student will spend nearly two decades in prison after he pleaded guilty to three assault charges on Monday, Aug. 13.
According to the AJC, Tyree Robert Mew attacked and raped three women at different homes and apartments near KSU’s Kennesaw campus between September 2015 and March 2016 while he was still attending the university. Two of the women were also KSU students at the time of the assault.
Mew was arrested in May 2016 after the two women reported that he had assaulted them near campus.
In November 2015, one of the women reported to police that Mew and Romelo Alfred Lewis assaulted her in her home on Wetherbyrne Road — about half a mile from KSU’s campus, according to the AJC.
Another KSU student reported in March 2016 that Mew held her against her will and assaulted her at the U Pointe student apartments in Kennesaw, according to the AJC. In the other case, warrants show that “Mew violently forced himself onto the women.”
“These three strong young women came forward despite facing the scrutiny of family members, friends, and members of the student body at KSU,” prosecutor Meredith Florio told the AJC.
Mew was sentenced to 18 years in prison and 12 years probation and will get credit for the time that he has already served since May 2016.