Marshall Man Gets 10 Years for Child Sex Abuse

A Marshall County man was sentenced to ten years behind bars Tuesday.

According to the Marshall County Sheriff's Office, 62-year-old Stephen A. Gray of Olive was sentenced in Marshall Circuit Court to 10 years in prison on charges of sexual abuse first degree of a victim less then twelve years old, possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor and distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor.

The charges stemmed from an investigation conducted by Marshall County detectives and assisted by Investigator Tom Bell, with the Kentucky Office of Attorney General Cyber Crimes Branch. Gray was initially charged in 2014 with sexual abuse first degree after being interviewed and confessing to the charges.

Further investigation led to search warrants being issued for the defendant's home computers, which yielded images of child pornography and evidence of those images being transmitted via the internet.