A Chelan man who supplied illicit drugs to children in exchange for explicit photographs and sex has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The 183-month sentence was handed down to 41-year-old Abraham Escalara by Judge Robert Jourdan in Chelan County Superior Court last Friday (Nov. 7).

Escalara's sentence stems from his guilty plea in September to charges of promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor (Class A felony); delivery of narcotics to a minor (Class B felony); commercial sexual abuse of a minor (Class B felony); and obstructing a law enforcement officer (misdemeanor).

Escalara had originally been facing 13 felony counts and one misdemeanor, which could have seen him spend the rest of his life behind bars if he'd been found guilty at a jury trial.

Instead, his plea agreement

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