LOGAN — A 27-year-old North Logan man has been sentenced to one month in jail for manipulating a 16-year-old girl into having sex with him by using “devil worship language,” according to prosecutors. Scott Preston Ferree was also ordered to complete one year of probation in addition to other restrictions after the victim’s mother called the defendant’s actions “cruel.”

Ferree was sentenced Oct. 20 in Logan’s 1st District Court. He previously pleaded “guilty with a mental condition” to forcible sexual abuse and obstructing justice, amended to second-degree felonies; along with sexual extortion and dealing in materials harmful to a minor, amended to third-degree felonies.

The plea in November 2024 came after Judge Spencer Walsh ruled that Ferree was competent to stand trial , but was suf

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