Three months after pleading guilty to his second pair of buttocks-grabbing crimes, the man known as the Rivanna Trail Groper has received additional jail time for his old gropes.

Cole Robinson McNair, 24, learned Tuesday that the Charlottesville Circuit Court was reimposing 18 months of previously suspended time.

The jail-heavy outcome came despite the efforts of the defense to portray a young man in the throes of complicated mental health problems.

“We believe this is mental health-related,” wrote Isabelle Foley, a probation team leader with Offender Aid and Restoration, or OAR, a nonprofit group that oversees substance and mental health counseling.

OAR’s letter was one of four that the defense filed with the court to urge less jail and more treatment for the troubled young man. The O

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