Rexburg man sentenced to prison for sexual abuse of a minor
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REXBURG — A 38-year-old man was sent to prison Monday after pleading guilty to the sexual abuse of a child.
Tyson Rollins was sentenced by District Judge Steven Boyce to a minimum of seven and a maximum of 25 years in prison.
Rollins was initially charged with three counts of felony lewd conduct with a child under 16 and one count of felony child sexual abuse of a minor under 16, and pleaded not guilty.
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He later accepted a plea agreement, where he agreed to plead guilty to one count of lewd conduct with a child under 16 in exchange for the prosecution dropping the remaining charges and recommending a minimum of five years in prison at sentencing.
According to an affidavit of probable cause, Madison County Sheriff’s detectives became aware of child sex abuse allegations against Rollins when the now teenage victim disclosed the abuse to her mother in January 2021.
The victim told investigators that Rollins sexually assaulted her underneath her clothes while both of them were watching a movie inside a home. The victim said the abuse happened when she was either 12 or 13 years old, placing the alleged incident sometime between 2018 and 2020.