A man suspected of sexual assault on campus is extradited to the United States.

An American man accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 then sent her a Facebook message, French appeals court prosecutors said. “So I forced you” was being extradited to the United States on Thursday.

Ian Cleary was handed over to US authorities at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, the prosecutor’s office of the Court of Appeal in Metz, northeastern France, said.

It was Cleary, 31, of Saratoga, California was detained in April After three years of searching in Metz. He has been detained since his arrest until the extradition process. The Metz Court of Appeal ruled in July that he could be extradited.

Cleary has been the subject of an international manhunt since Pennsylvania authorities issued a 2021 felony warrant in the case weeks after an Associated Press report detailed local prosecutors’ reluctance to prosecute campus sex crimes.

The arrest warrant accuses Cleary of stalking an 18-year-old Gettysburg College student at a party in 2013, sneaking into her dorm and sexually assaulting her while she texted friends for help. He was a 20-year-old Gettysburg student at the time, but never returned to campus.

prosecutor, Shannon Keelertook a rape test on the same day. He gathered witnesses and evidence and spent years urging officers to press charges. He went to the authorities again in 2021 after discovering Facebook messages that appeared to be from Cleary’s account.

The sender wrote “I raped you” in a series of messages.

“I will never do this to anyone again.”

“I need to hear your voice.”

“I will pray for you.”

According to the June 2021 warrant, police confirmed that the Facebook account used to post the messages belonged to Cleary.

AP typically does not identify sexual assault victims without Keeler’s permission.

Very few in the US campus rape The AP investigation is being prosecuted both because victims are afraid to go to the police and because prosecutors are reluctant to bring cases that may be difficult to win.