OAKLAND — An Emeryville man has agreed to settle his sex abuse case by pleading no contest to statutory rape, with the expectation of receiving 90 days in a comprehensive rehabilitation facility, court records show.
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Jacob Lasso, 30, is set to be sentenced on Oct. 10. The terms of his deal say that if he fails at the rehabilitation program he’ll receive a year in jail.
Lasso was arrested earlier this year after a 15-year-old girl reported domestic violence stating a person she was dating “held her against the wall by placing his hands around her throat and (choking) her,” police said in court record. It turned out the person she described as a “boyfriend” was actually Lasso, according to court records.
Lasso was originally charged with committing a lewd act on a child, and a misdemeanor count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, but those charges are being dropped as part of the plea deal.