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Nebraskan gets 30-48 months for child sex assault

GERING (AP) — A 33-year-old western Nebraska man has been given 30 to 48 months in prison for sexually assaulting a child.

Scottsbluff radio station KNEB says Keith Van Winkle, of Minatare, had made a deal with prosecutors and pleaded no contest to reduced charges in Scotts Bluff County District Court.

Van Winkle was given credit for 254 days already served.

He was arrested after a 7-year-old girl told school officials in May about being molested three years earlier....

 

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