John Bennish, a 60-year-old retired engineer, will spend five days in jail for allegedly stalking and repeatedly breaking into a 24-year-old Seton Hill University student's apartment
Once his jail term ends, Bennish will be under house arrest for nine months and spend another two years on probation.
Bennish pleaded guilty, February, to charges of theft and breaking into the women's Toll House apartments, Greensburg.
Defense attorney Harry Smail said that his client has undergone extensive mental health therapy and admits that he is guilty of the heinous crimes.
"I'm very sorry for my actions and my behaviour," Bennish told the judge.
Bennish will begin his prison sentence, June 3.
" This is the kind of crime where the hairs on the backs of the neck stand up," Westmoreland County Assistant District Attorney Kelly Hammers said. "The victims didn't know they were being stalked or harassed," Hammers said.
Bennish was arrested, March 2012, in the apartment after neighbors called police upon hearing strange noises from the apartment when the inhabitants were out on a spring break vacation.
They also told the police that they had earlier spotted Bennish entering another woman's apartment a month earlier.
During the investigation, police raided Bennish's home and found pictures of more than a dozen scantily dressed women, numerous pairs of stained women's underwear and pornographic videos and magazines.
When questioned by the police, Bennish said that he was obsessed with the women and used a plastic tool to breach into the women's apartments several times.
He also said that he kept a note of their routines and gained access to their homes only when they weren't available.
