Police: Man sexually assaulted another man in locker room

WAYNESBORO - A Waynesboro area man is accused of sexually assaulting another man in a Waynesboro gym locker room.

Estefhan Sody, 29, was charged last week with attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, indecent assault, indecent exposure and attempted rape, according to court documents.

Sody, who police say discussed being from Waynesboro but did not give a legitimate address, allegedly approached another man in the men's locker room Waynesboro Health and Fitness on Jan. 2, according to court documents.

The man reported to gym employees that between 8 and 8:15 a.m. that day, Sody confronted him in the locker room and started to ask him inappropriate questions and made sexual comments, according to court documents.

The man said Sody attempted forced sexual contact while the man pushed Sody away and told him "he's not into men like that," according to court documents.

The man said Sody grabbed him by the arm, took him to a bathroom stall, and attempted to undress him, but the man got away, got dressed and left the gym, according to court documents.

The man reported the incident to the gym, which then reported it to police.

When police spoke with the man, he repeated the events of the assault to investigators, according to court documents. The man said that he kept telling Sody no, but that Sody "just wouldn't listen."

The man told police Sody allegedly yelled at him to "keep quiet" but that Sody masturbated in the locker room after he stopped attacking the man.

The man said he didn't understand why he was assaulted, according to court documents.

Waynesboro Police found Sody at Waynesboro Health and Fitness at around 6:40 a.m., Jan. 10, according to court documents. Upon seeing officers, Sody told police that they were ruining his life and that he didn't want to go to jail.

When police spoke with Sody at the department, and explained it was about an incident at the gym, he began to say "he wasn't a child or anything. I can't be charged with that, he was an adult," according to court documents. Police read Sody his rights and continued the interview.

Sody told police the man could have pushed him away if he did not want sex, according to court documents.

Sody argued that he should not be charged because the man was an adult, and that the man was just "embarrassed."

Sody is being held at Franklin County Jail on $50,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 23.

Becky Metrick, 717-262-4762