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A former Utah State University fraternity president accused of sexually abusing a female partygoer has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.
Ryan Christopher Wray, 26, was initially charged in 1st District Court with forcible sexual abuse, a first-degree felony.
Wray pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser count of third-degree felony attempted forcible sexual abuse.
The crime is punishable by up to five years in prison, but prosecutors agreed to recommend one year in jail and treatment at a state-run corrections center.
Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 14 before Judge Kevin Allen.
During Pi Kappa Alpha parties at the fraternity house, which is off-campus, people who "could no longer take care of themselves" were placed in Wray's care, Logan police Capt. Tyson Budge has said.
"Several of the girls got talking and realized that they may have been taken advantage of," between last October and now, Budge said.
One of the college-age women gave a statement to the police, and Wray confessed "to inappropriate touching" during a police interview, Budge has said.
Wray is a former president of the school's Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, school officials have said.