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As Kurt Harmer stood to be sentenced Tuesday, the woman he sexually assaulted was not in the courtroom to speak.
But in a letter she had written a week or so before, the 21-year-old woman listed the expenses she had incurred from an October sexual assault she suffered at the hands of Harmer, her landlord.
There was $750 for a deposit on a new place to live. Eight counseling sessions, at $110 a piece. There was $1,432 listed under "hospital stay for trying to commit suicide."
Next to "emotional pain and suffering," she wrote, "Hard to identify an amount."
Prosecutors knew the woman had struggled since the attack, but they had hoped counseling and a resolution to the case would help her cope.
On Thursday, however, the woman ended her own life. It was her third suicide attempt since being assaulted, Utah County prosecutor Craig Johnson said.
"When something like this happens, it really shocks your conscience," the prosecutor said. "I'm heartbroken for her family."
Earlier this year, Harmer, 44, of Mapleton, pleaded no contest in 4th District Court to two class A misdemeanor counts of sexual battery. According to court documents, Harmer spent a day in October drinking while fixing a shower head in the Payson apartment the 21-year-old woman shared with her mother.
At some point, the woman went to her garage to smoke a cigarette. As she sat in a wheelchair her brother once used, Harmer pinned her down and made sexual advances. He made comments and pulled down her shirt, grabbing her breasts.
She "repeatedly told [Harmer] to stop and tried pushing him away, but she was unable to since she weighed 95 pounds and the defendant weighs close to 200 pounds," according to court documents.
The woman's family spoke in court during Harmer's sentencing hearing but could not be reached later for comment. Attempts to reach Harmer, who was given two days to report to jail, were unsuccessful. His attorney did not return a message seeking comment.
In the woman's obituary, her family called her a "special angel," a woman who loved dogs and the outdoors.
In her letter to the court, the victim expressed some of the pain and fear she had experienced since October.
"I need you to know that I continue to experience symptoms of trauma to this present day," she wrote. "I hope he is not allowed to do what he did to me [or worse] to any other woman."
She wrote that she feared Harmer would assault other women "if he is not punished to the fullest degree of the law."
On Tuesday, Judge Steven L. Hansen did just that, sentencing the man to 365 days in the Utah County jail.