{"id":322509,"date":"2026-11-06T17:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322509\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:10:38","slug":"erie-man-who-sexually-assaulted-girl-gets-prison-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322509\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie man who sexually assaulted girl gets prison time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Erie man was sentenced Thursday to at least 48 years in prison after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradohometownweekly.com\/2025\/08\/01\/justin-medford-sexual-assault-child-erie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">telling police he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl<\/a> at least four times in 2021 and 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>Justin Boyd Medford, 70, pleaded guilty in a Weld County plea deal to two counts of sexual assault on a child from a position of trust, online court records show. Five counts of the same charge were dismissed as part of the deal.\n<\/p>\n<p>Medord was sentenced to an indeterminate 48-year term in the Department of Corrections, according to Weld County District Attorney\u2019s Office spokesperson Kaitlynn Spratte. He has 181 days of credit for time served, court records show\n<\/p>\n<p>Medford went to the Erie Police Department on July 7 and told officers he molested an 11-year-old girl four times between August 2021 and January 2022, according to an arrest affidavit. He turned himself in to Erie officers on July 25.<\/p>\n<p>The girl told police that Medford inappropriately touched her at least six times, the affidavit says. Medford assaulted her almost every day for a period of one to three weeks, she told officers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police looked at a text Medford sent in which he apologized for a sexual assault, according to the affidavit. Medford said he knew what he did was inappropriate, according to the affidavit.\n<\/p>\n<p>Medford told police he never raped the girl, the affidavit says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Erie man was sentenced Thursday to at least 48 years in prison after telling police he sexually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1676,7250,202,136,138,137,1677,241,182,139,337,1680],"class_list":["post-322509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-sexual-assault","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}