CANTON, Ga. - A 37-year-old Ball Ground man will be spending the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted by a Cherokee County jury on two counts of aggravated sexual battery, aggravated child molestation, and two counts of child molestation.

Zachery Allan Maltman received two consecutive life terms plus an additional 19 years from Superior Court Judge Jennifer L. Davis on Monday.

Ball Ground man sentenced

What they're saying:

The victim’s mother spoke during his sentencing hearing, fighting back emotion to describe the day her daughter bravely revealed the abuse to her. She said her daughter was told by Maltman that "You can cry, but cry quietly."

"These six little words play through my head regularly, every day," the victim’s mother said in her impact statement. "That n

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