Apr 26, 2024 By Mike Jones 3 min read

A Greene County man is facing what could be a life sentence after being convicted of attacking a woman inside his Jackson Township mobile home and making her perform sex acts in February 2022 just two days after he was released from prison for a similar assault six years earlier.

Ian Jared Nakonechni, 36, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 60 to 120 years in state prison after being convicted last year of assaulting the woman, leaving her with injuries so severe that she had to be hospitalized.

A Greene County jury convicted Nakonechni on Oct. 26, finding him guilty of aggravated assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, five counts of strangulation, sexual assault, indecent assault, terroristic threats and simple assault. The jury found him not guilty on one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

State police accused Nakonechni of bringing the woman to his Falling Timber Road residence on Feb. 26, 2022, and choking her to the point she fell unconscious. When the woman woke up, Nakonechni struck her in the face, police said.

She went into a nearby house on the property and took a shower before Nakonechni forced her to return to his mobile home. He threatened to kill her after throwing her to the ground and assaulting her multiple times, in some instances using an object to strike her, police said.

Police said he punched and head-butted the woman, breaking her nose. He also made her perform sex acts on him over the two-day ordeal, police said.

The woman went to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh for treatment and was interviewed by police about the incident. Nakonechni was arrested March 1, 2022, and has been held without bond while his case proceeded through the courts.

In addition to the lengthy prison sentence, President Judge Lou Dayich also is requiring Nakonechni to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life on the state police Megan’s List website.

This wasn’t the first time Nakonechni was accused of savagely beating a woman inside the mobile home on his Jackson Township property. He was accused by state police of holding a woman against her will and assaulting her over four days, beginning on New Year’s Eve in 2015.

While Nakonechni was initially charged with more than a dozen counts of rape, those charges were dropped when he eventually agreed to a plea deal in May 2016. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges of attempted aggravated assault, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint, simple assault and reckless endangerment. Dayich sentenced Nakonechni to serve four to eight years in prison as part of the plea deal.

Parole records with the state Department of Corrections show Nakonechni was released from prison on Feb. 24, 2022, just two days before the subsequent assault at his mobile home. It’s not known where he will serve his prison sentence for the 2022 attack.