LOGAN — A 49-year-old New Mexico man has admitted to molesting a Logan girl several years ago. Kenneth Ray Mayfield has been in the Cache County Jail since being arrested on a warrant June 30 .

According to court paperwork, Mayfield appeared Oct. 27 in Logan’s 1 st District Court. He accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony. A remaining charge was dismissed without prejudice.

According to prosecutors, Logan City Police were contacted in January about a child sex abuse report that occurred between three and four years ago. A 14-year-old girl explained how she had been inappropriately touched by Mayfield, an uncle, while he was visiting her family’s home.

The victim described several incidents of being molested by Mayfield, as

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