Former University of Georgia outside linebacker Adam Anderson was sentenced Monday in Clarke County Superior Court to one year in prison after entering a guilty plea in the sexual battery of two women.
According to a report from the Athens Banner-Herald, Adam Anderson was originally facing two rape charges, but they were reduced to misdemeanor sexual battery.
The plea was negotiated between District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez and Anderson's lawyer, Steve Sadow of Atlanta.
Anderson has to turn himself in at the Athens-Clarke County Jail by Saturday. He entered an Alford Plea, which is a guilty plea that allows Anderson to continue to maintain his innocence in the case while accepting the conditions set forth by the criminal justice system. The Alford Plea is also known as a "best-interests plea."
Anderson was accused of assaulting the two women in 2021. One of the assaults happened in Athens while the other happened at an apartment complex in Oconee County. Both women were 21 at the time of the assaults.
Anderson played for the Bulldogs from 2018 through 2021. Anderson was indefinitely suspended from the football team in Nov. 2021, during his senior year.
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