Oregon man who sexually abused his 20-year-old employee sentenced

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Lincoln City man was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison after sexually abusing his employee.

Joshua Rebic, 51, harassed and sexually abused his then 20-year-old female employee, whom he was directly supervising from 2021 to 2022, the Lincoln County District Attorney’s Office said.

Rebic had been arrested and returned to Lincoln County in August 2024 after cutting off his GPS monitoring device one year prior, fleeing the state to Melrose, Minnesota, then returning to Oregon, hiding out in Salem. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the Lincoln County DA detectives’ subsequent arrest.

The evasion of charges came after Rebic posted $100,000 bail back in 2023, months after a Lincoln County Grand Jury indicted Rebic on 23 charges.

At the time, Rebic was participating in a domestic violence deferred sentencing program for two counts of domestic menacing for a July 2022 incident towards two of his family members.

For the workplace sex abuse charges, Rebic was sentenced to 150 months in prison for 15 counts of third-degree sex abuse, four counts of first-degree sex abuse, physical harassment and sexual harassment.