FAYETTEVILLE -- An Oklahoma man was sentenced to 60 years in prison after a Washington County Circuit Court jury on Wednesday convicted him of rape and second-degree sexual assault.
Jerry Dale Cherry, 73, of Colcord, Okla., raped a person younger than 14 and engaged in sexual contact with a person younger than 1 year old, according to prosecutors.
The jury recommended sentences of 40 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction on the rape charge and 20 years on the second-degree sexual assault charge.
Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay ordered Cherry serve the terms consecutively.
Whitney Doolittle and Jonathan Dixon prosecuted the case for the state.