Jerrod Hammond Sentenced to 20 Years in DOC; Steven Sandoval Receives Eight Year Sentence

 Two sentence hearings were held in Starke Circuit Court on Thursday.

Judge Kim Hall sentenced a man to the maximum prison term allowed for a charge with a Class B felony classification.

Jerrod Hammond pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the state to amended criminal information and a charge of Child Molestation as a Class B felony. Judge Hall sentenced Hammond to 20 years in the Indiana Department of Corrections with no part of the sentence suspended. A second count of Child Molestation as a Class D felony was dropped.

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