Mar 17, 2020

Kansas man who took photos up women's skirts sentenced

Posted Mar 17, 2020 3:02 PM
Dayvault photo Sedgwick County
Dayvault photo Sedgwick County

WICHITA, KAN. – A Kansas man who surreptitiously took lewd photos of young children and young women has been sentenced to prison, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney.

On Friday, Judge Kevin O’Connor sentenced James Dayvault, 30 of Wichita, to 57 months in prison.

In November, the judge, found Dayvault guilty of one count of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of lewd and lascivious behavior, one count of breach of privacy and one count of attempted breach of privacy.

A neighbor reported seeing Dayvault following young children and photographing them. During the investigation, police recovered photos on his cell phone that included pornographic images of children and images taken up women’s skirts at various locations in the city including a local church and department store parking lot.