<p>A Greenwood man who was convicted of sexual battery will spend time in jail, but also faces an additional misdemeanor charge of trying to ask the victim to lie.</p>
<p>Tiaan Toliver, 22, was sentenced to a year in the county jail and a year of probation on the sexual battery charge. He was sentenced this week in Johnson Circuit Court by Judge Andy Roesener.</p>
<p>He will have to register as a sexual offender for 10 years.</p>
<p>He was convicted of a 2018 sexual battery incident involving a girl who was touched while she was sleeping. While awaiting sentencing after he was convicted, Toliver was charged with invasion of privacy for trying to contact the victim, which was against a court order, according to a news release from the Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office.</p>
<p>In two separate incidents in late September, Toliver called a family member of the victim from the Johnson County jail and encouraged the family member to have the victim say she made it up so that he could get out of jail, according to court documents.</p>
<p>The victim told police that the family member asked her to drop the charges. The victim said she hung up on her family member, court documents said.</p>
<p>“The Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office will continue to prioritize the protection of victims throughout the criminal process even after obtaining a conviction,” Johnson County Prosecutor Joe Villanueva said in the news release.</p>
<p>Invasion of privacy is a Class A misdemeanor has a sentencing range of 0 to 365 days and a fine of up to $5,000. The invasion of privacy charge is pending in Johnson County Circuit Court, the news release said.</p>
<p>The jail sentence on the original sexual battery conviction will be served at the Johnson County jail, since a state law orders that sentences on level 6 felony offenses be served at county jails. Sexual battery is a level 6 felony with a sentencing range from 180 days to two and a half years in jail.</p>
<p>Toliver was found guilty of sexual battery in a one-day bench trial in September. During a bench trial, a judge, rather than a jury, decides whether a defendant is guilty. Roesener also conducted the bench trial.</p>
<p>The original sexual battery charges stem from an incident in the summer of 2018, when Greenwood police were notified that a girl had told her family that she had been touched sexually against her will while she was asleep at a Greenwood apartment, according to a police report.</p>
<p>Her family took her to Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health for an examination. The victim of the crime testified during the trial.</p>
