After a nearly 12-year odyssey for justice, Shannon Keeler was able to confront in court on Monday the man who confessed to sexually assaulting her at a 2013 fraternity party."I was shaking and tearing up a bit, but it felt really good to be able to look him in the eyes and tell him what he did to me," Keeler told ABC News' Juju Chang in an interview that aired Tuesday on "Good Morning America."Ian Cleary, the man accused of sexually assaulting Keeler at Gettysburg University in 2013, was sentenced Monday to two to four years in prison."It definitely was shorter than we expected and less than I think he deserved," Keeler said of Cleary's sentence."But you know what, he's going to jail and he's going to have the label of a sexual predator for the rest of his life, and that's accountability, and that's justice, and for that ...
I'm happy, and I'm grateful, and I'm relieved, and I'm lucky."Keeler was a freshman lacrosse player at Gettysburg University in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 2013 when she went to a fraternity party, where she said a male student -- whom she identified as Cleary -- kept bothering her.Shannon Keeler speaks with ABC News' Juju Chang in an interview that aired Oct.21, 2025, on "Good Morning America."ABC NewsKeeler said that out of concern for her safety, a friend escorted her back to her dorm, but she said Cleary followed them."There was knock on the door.
And, I mean, I just didn't think for a second it would be him," Keeler told Chang."And I opened the door and it was him, and ...
he came in uninvited."Once inside her dorm room, Keeler said she was sexually assaulted by Cleary.In court on Monday, Keeler read aloud a victim impact statement that described, in her own words, the trauma she said she experienced."The trauma of that night wasn't confined to my dorm room.It changed how I saw myself," Keeler said, later adding, "My confidence, my self-care, my relationship with my body, all of it shifted in quiet, painful ways."Soon after the incide...