CLEVELAND, Ohio – A former nurse’s aide at an Ashtabula County retirement community was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for raping two residents.

Wayde Shankle, 36, pleaded guilty to two rape charges in Ashtabula County Common Pleas Court. Judge Thomas Harris sentenced him right after the plea. He ordered Shankle to register with the county sheriff as a Tier III sex offender for the rest of his life.

Depending on his behavior in prison, Shankle could face a term of up to 12 years.

Shankle, of Ashtabula, was indicted in July after an investigation found he raped two residents of Villa at the Lake, where he worked as a nurse’s aide. One of the victims was a patient in the community’s memory-care unit. Published reports indicate that the incidents took place in February and Ju

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