COEUR d’ALENE — A teen accused of raping an intoxicated girl has been released on probation after completing a nine-month jail treatment program.

The 18-year-old offender pleaded guilty in accordance with Alford last year to injury to a child, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

By entering an Alford plea, he did not admit guilt but acknowledged that he might be convicted if the case went to trial.

The Press is not naming the offender because he was a minor at the time of the crime and his conviction.

Calling the case “a parent’s worst nightmare,” District Judge Cynthia Meyer sentenced the offender last September to 10 years in prison, with four years fixed and six indeterminate.

The conviction stemmed from January 2020, when a Hayden Lake teen reported that she had been sexually assaulted at a house party in Dalton Gardens.

The offender and victim were both 16 years old.

Witnesses at the party told police the offender sent a video via Snapchat that appeared to show him engaging in sexual activity with the teen girl in a bedroom.

At that point, two partygoers reportedly went to break up the activity.

They told police they found the girl unresponsive in bed, partially dressed, while the offender was clothed. They also found a used condom on the bed, which police collected as evidence.

The girl was so drunk she couldn’t speak or keep her eyes open, witnesses said. She had to be carried into a bathroom, where she vomited uncontrollably.

The girl sought medical care and reported the incident to police the next day, according to court documents.

Prosecutors charged the offender with rape in August 2020.

As part of a pretrial settlement agreement, he pleaded guilty to the amended charge of injury to a child.

The victim addressed the court prior to sentencing, describing how her life has changed since the party.

“I am a different person,” she said. “I lost all value I had in myself. I lost myself and feel empty.”

Prosecutors recommended retained jurisdiction in the case, which Meyer granted.

That meant the offender would spend up to a year in a jail treatment program, called a rider, before Meyer either placed him on probation or sent him to prison.

Meyer previously denied a request to modify the offender’s sentence to local jail with work release, noting what she described as “criminal thinking” and “arrogance.”

At a hearing last Friday, both prosecutors and the defense recommended probation.

Meyer said the offender’s amended presentence investigation report showed “a change in thinking” and increased maturity.

She placed the offender on supervised probation for three years. She also ordered a 10-year no contact order between the offender and the victim.

The Idaho Department of Corrections will reportedly determine whether the teen is supervised as a sex offender.