A Titusville man will spend nearly seven years in prison at a minimum and register as a sexual offender for life as a result of a sentence handed down on Friday on charges including rape of a 16-year-old girl.

Rodney J. Boyle, 24, 44 Enterprise Road,Titusville was sentenced by President Judge Maureen Skerda.

The victim reported an incident that occurred in late August 2020 at the Enterprise Road address. Boyle allegedly offered the victim raspberry vodka and told the interviewer that she became highly intoxicated.

She told the interviewer she awoke inside the residence at about 4 a.m. when Boyle was having sex with her, so intoxicated that she “couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t speak.”

She further disclosed that Boyle said he would get her “Plan B” birth control the following day.

The next day she said Boyle sent her a message “telling her he had placed a ‘Plan B’ type birth control item inside a McDonald’s cup and put it in the ditch close to her residence,” the affidavit states. “The victim stated she located the birth control and took the item.”

Boyle was subsequently identified on video and still photos at the Walmart in Titusville purchasing the birth control item.

His attorney, Bruce Sandmeyer, on Friday called this a “very difficult case, a very sad case.”

He said his client “takes full responsibility for his actions” and has been “cooperative” without any prior record.

Sandmeyer cited a “severe drinking issue” and a developmental disability as possible explanations for this conduct. He said Boyle “completely accepts” the trauma he has caused and “has shown nothing but strong remorse.”

He told the court he “cut” alcohol out of his life and has a strong “rehabilitative” potential.

“He wants the court to know he has made changes,” he said.

First Assistant District Attorney Cody Brown highlighted a impact statement from the victim that cited physical and mental consequences of Boyle’s conduct as well as her feeling that she is living in a prison.

“I saw the change in my daughter,” the victim’s step-mother told the court. She said Boyle did not of his free will come forward and admit what he did. “He got caught.”

“I want to apologize to everybody,” Boyle said, stating that he intended no harm and that conduct like this won’t happen again.

“You were aware the night this happened of your conduct,” Skerda said, highlighting his birth control purchase.

She said that letters in support of him blame the victim.

“It has torn your family apart,” she said.

“The court recognizes trauma,” Skerda added, noting that this conduct was “not in any way, shape or form consensual.”

She told him that he will be “required to register for the rest of your life” as a Megan’s Law sexual offender.

Boyle was then sentenced to 78 months to 15 years incarceration in state prison, $1,300 in fines and fees, three years probation, a mental health evaluation and compliance with recommendations, sex offender treatment and submission of a DNA sample on a count of rape — unconscious victim as well as three months to one year in state prison on a count of corruption of minors and a $300 fine for furnishing liquor to a minor.