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PLATTE CITY MAN SENTENCED TO 35 YEARS FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE
October 18, 2019
KSHB
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Platte City man was sentenced on Thursday to 35 years in prison for sexually abusing a girl from the time she was 8 years old.
Joshua Michael Lay, 38, pleaded guilty in May to statutory sodomy in the first degree after initially entering a not-guilty plea.
Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd said Lay’s “evil acts” demanded a “lengthy” sentence.
In April 2017, a girl told staff at Children’s Mercy Hospital that Lay sexually abused her, beginning sometime around 2010. She also told a child forensic