A 38-year-old Rockland man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and a year of probation for groping a 19-year-old woman without her consent in Jefferson on June 21.
Christopher D. “Chris” Schisler pleaded guilty to class D unlawful sexual touching Sept. 28, according to court documents. He was sentenced to 364 days in custody with all but 60 days suspended, plus a year of probation.
Schisler’s probation conditions prohibit contact with the victim and require him to complete sexual counseling. If he violates probation, he could return to custody for up to 304 days, the suspended portion of his sentence.
Schisler gave the woman and her boyfriend, a former employee of Shisler’s, a ride from Rockland to Jefferson June 21, according to an affidavit by the investigating officer, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Detective Sgt. Ronald Rollins.
On the way, Schisler stopped at the park and asked the woman’s boyfriend to “give them some space to talk,” according to the affidavit.
The boyfriend did so, and Schisler proceeded to make sexual comments and eventually contact with the woman, who physically and verbally rebuffed his advances. She was eventually able to pull away from him and walk away.
Schisler was arrested July 22, the day after the woman reported the incident.
Schisler was on probation at the time of his arrest for assaulting a man with a hatchet at an Occupy Maine encampment in Portland on Nov. 18, 2011.
According to the Portland Press Herald, Schisler had been living at the Lincoln Park encampment for several weeks with his pitbull. The morning of the assault, another man in the encampment was banging on a drum to wake protesters for a cleanup exercise.
Schisler broke the drum with a hatchet, the man threw the drum at Schisler, and Schisler hit the man in the head with the blunt end of the hatchet. The victim was taken to the Maine Medical Center emergency room, where he was treated and released.
Schisler pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison with all but one year suspended, plus three years of probation, as well as a 118-day probation revocation in connection with a prior conviction for domestic violence assault.
