NEAR MANSFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A judge sentenced a man from the Mansfield area after entering an Alford plea to two counts of child molestation.

Wayne Shockey will spend the next ten years in prison. An Alford plea means he admitted there was enough evidence to prosecute him, but did not admit guilt.

Authorities arrested Shockey in 2020 after police received a tip that he and another man were sexually abusing two children in Webster County. Investigators say Shockey knowingly had deviant sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 14 by touching her inappropriately. They say there was also an instance where Shockey took a video of a minor having sex with him.

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