GEORGETOWN, SC (WMBF) – A 50-year-old Georgtown man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a minor, according to a press release from Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson.

John Wayne McConnell, 50, pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 16 and second-degree assault and battery. McConnell was sentenced to eight years in prison for the sexual assault charge and three years in prison for the assault charge; the sentences will run concurrently.

The incidents had occurred since 2011 and involved two female minors who reported the incidents to authorities in February 2017, according to incident reports.

Georgetown man pleads guilty to sexual assault of a minor; sentenced to eight years in prison