JACKSON COUNTY, MI — A Coldwater man, arrested for soliciting underage girls for sex, has been sent to prison.

Two judges in adjacent counties sentenced Walter Rodger Ward Jr. in early September to two to seven years in prison on identical charges, court records show.

Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain sentenced Ward on Sept. 3 to serve two to four years in prison for accosting a child for immoral purposes and one to seven years for using a computer to commit a crime.

Five days later, on Sept. 8, Calhoun County Circuit Judge John Hallacy sentenced Ward to one to four years in prison for accosting a child for immoral purposes and two to seven years for using a computer to commit a crime.

Ward, 57, previously pleaded guilty June 24 to the charges, with the agreement that sentenci

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