TOLEDO, Ohio -- Saying he was “just at the wrong place at the wrong time,” a Toledo man admitted Friday to taking part in a transgender woman’s assault and robbery four months ago.

Christopher Temple, 20, pleaded guilty before Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Dean Mandros to felonious assault and aggravated robbery for the Nov. 3 attack on Candice Rose Milligan, 33, of Toledo.

Temple, whose case had been set for trial March 16, was told he could face up to 19 years in prison when he is sentenced April 2.

While the incident was initially portrayed as “anti-transgender violence,” Claudia Ford, an assistant county prosecutor, said after the hearing she had no information to indicate that Ms. Milligan was targeted. In admitting his role in the assault to police, Temple did not express a bias against lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender individuals, she said.

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