A jury comprised of Bell County residents piled on the years after convicting a local man of sexually assaulting a Killeen girl.

Wesley David Battles, 35, was taken into custody on Wednesday following the jury’s verdict of guilty on all three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. He had been out of jail since 2021, when he posted bond. Battles was indicted on June 16, 2021. The charge is a first-degree felony because the victim was under the age of 14 at the time of the assaults.

In the majority of cases when a defendant is sentenced to multiple sentences, they are served concurrently. In this case, though, the jury stacked the punishment so that Battles effectively was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

“On Wednesday, the jury returned a verdict (of) 75 years on each of the th

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