SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Tennessee man was sentenced to more than 160 years in prison for child sex crimes, according to 18th Judicial District Attorney General Thomas Dean.

On Friday, 48-year-old Christopher Howard Alessio, of Hendersonville, was sentenced to 162 years in prison without the possibility of parole or early release.

This comes after Alessio’s July conviction. A Sumner County jury found him guilty of seven counts of rape of a child, five counts of rape, seven counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of sexual battery by an authority figure after a five-day trial.

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Alessio was arrested in October 2022 by the Hendersonville Police Department after a 13-year-old girl reported that Alessio h

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