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Joshua Mason (Credit: Houston County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProsecutors said the abuse involved a minor family member and spanned nearly a decade.<\/p>\n
\t\tJoshua Mason (Credit: Houston County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC\/WMGT) \u2014 A Houston County judge has sentenced a former Warner Robins assistant principal to life in prison plus 30 years after a jury convicted him on multiple child sex abuse charges.<\/p>\n
According to a Houston County District Attorney\u2019s Office news release, 44-year-old Joshua Lee Mason was found guilty Wednesday of aggravated child molestation, child molestation, incest and aggravated sodomy after a three-day trial in Superior Court.<\/p>\n
Mason was sentenced immediately after the verdict. Prosecutors said Mason will also be required to register as a sex offender for life if he is ever granted parole.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the charges stem from years of sexual abuse involving a minor child who was related to Mason. Prosecutors told jurors the abuse began when the child was eight years old and continued over a nine-year period, including multiple incidents that happened while the victim lived in Houston County.<\/p>\n
The district attorney\u2019s office said forensic testing confirmed Mason\u2019s DNA on carpet taken from a residence connected to the investigation. That evidence, along with testimony presented at trial, was used by prosecutors to support the charges.<\/p>\n
The case was investigated by the Houston County Sheriff\u2019s Office Juvenile Investigations Division. Assistant District Attorneys Elizabeth McDaniel and Justin Duane prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n
District Attorney Eric Edwards said the verdict and sentence ensure Mason will never have the opportunity to harm another child.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case represents one of the most serious breaches of trust our justice system is ever called upon to confront,\u201d Edwards said in a statement. \u201cProtecting children is among the most solemn responsibilities of this office, and today justice was served.\u201d\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors said the abuse involved a minor family member and spanned nearly a decade. Joshua Mason (Credit: Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14584,56,58,57,65953,21745,47904],"class_list":["post-160875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-assistant","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-life-sentence","tag-principal","tag-warner-robins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}