DOUGLAS COUNTY— A Kansas man has been sentenced for sexual assault involving children in his home.
Timothy Glen Martins, 47, of Lawrence, has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years after he was convicted of child sex crimes, according to a media release from the Douglas County Attorney.
Martins also was sentenced to four years and one month for one other count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, four years and five months for aggravated indecent liberties with a child, and two years and seven months for indecent liberties with a child.
Those sentences will run concurrently to the life sentence.
In May, a Douglas Co. jury found Martins guilty of four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of indecent liberties with a child. The charges stem from incidents that happened between 2012 and 2017, in which Martins engaged in sexual activity with girls under his care who lived at his home.
“The defendant preyed upon his own children,” District Attorney Suzanne Valdez said. “I commend the survivors for exercising tremendous courage to bring this perpetrator to justice and making our community safer.”