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A convicted pedophile will spend life in prison plus 220 years.
Peter Arnold-Brooks Graf was convicted Thursday on a single count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, two counts of indecency with a child and nine counts related to child pornography.
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Seventy-Eighth District Court Judge Meredith Kennedy on Monday sentenced him to life in prison for the sexual assault conviction and 20 years in prison on each of the other convictions. She made the sentences consecutive.
Graf was arrested in May 2018 for incidents involving a 10-year-old child that initially came to light in February 2016. Detectives learned in their investigation of crimes against multiple underaged children. When they reviewed digital devices, they found thousands of nude images of a child, including images where the child was in positions that displayed their genitals “lewdly.” The images also showed a younger victim who was 1 or 2 years old at the time the photos were taken.
“This shows again our commitment of locking up those who prey on children in our community,” Wichita County District Attorney John Gillespie said. “I am proud of the work that our Special Victims Unit Chief Brooke Robb did in going after this child molester with a vengeance.”
“We applaud Judge Meredith Kennedy for stacking the sentence and sending the message that each act of child sexual abuse deserved its own punishment,” Dobie Kosub, First Assistant District Attorney, said. “This monster will never see life out of prison again, nor will he ever be able to harm another child.”
This article originally appeared on Wichita Falls Times Record News: Man found guilty of child sex charges gets life sentence