A sixteen-year-old student convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow classmate in a secluded stairwell at Madison West High School in September was sentenced Wednesday to three years in a state juvenile correctional facility.

The boy pleaded no contest to juvenile charges of kidnapping and third-degree sexual assault.

He will serve at the Ethan Allen school, a juvenile facility he served time in during February 2001 for stealing a car.

“I take full responsibility for what happened at West High School. I know what I did was wrong, and I’m willing to undergo treatment to help me work this out,” the boy told Sumi, according to the Wisconsin State Journal, who also reported a kidnapping charge was added to the boy’s charges as part of a plea agreement.

The boy’s sentencing comes less than two weeks after the Madison school system was hit with a fresh allegation of a sexual assault involving students, when several students were found together in a compromising position in an area of Madison West High school administrators said was off-limits to students.

Madison Police are investing the incident, which they refer to as a “possible sexual assault.”

Several days after the September assault, Madison School District spokesperson Joe Quick vowed to evaluate the security of Madison’s schools.

“We plan to walk through [West High] and look for areas that might be dangerous,” Quick said.

Quick did stress, however, that maintaining the safety of every student is no easy task, despite the constant presence of two security guards on campus during school hours.

“There are 2,000 students at West High School,” Quick said. “It is impossible to keep an eye on everyone.”

The issue of safety in Madison public schools has been addressed in recent years, according to Quick.

“We did a review of all the high schools and placed cameras in areas where we felt they would be best utilized,” Quick said.

West High principal Loren J. Rathert sent a letter home with students to inform their parents that a student at the high school had been sexually assaulted on school grounds and that counselors would be on hand to talk to students disturbed by the incident.

” We will be examining access to all hallways, corridors, stairwells and elevators,” the letter stated. “Lighting, security cameras, and building supervision are being reviewed, and changes will be implemented.”

The convicted rapist’s record prompted district officials to launch a probe into the student records of Madison public schools students, revealing that one out of every 100 students attending Madison public schools had been convicted of a crime.

District officials declined to specify the severity of the convictions, which range from shoplifting and fighting to felonies.

West High School was found to have the third-highest number of criminally convicted students (31), coming in behind La Follete (45), and Memorial (34).