COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A West Side man whom detectives said confessed to raping as many as 30 local boys pleaded and was sentenced Monday.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
Wilfred Creighton, 47, pleaded guilty to three counts of rape, four counts of gross sexual imposition, and one count each of importuning and pandering obscenity involving minors.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a Franklin County Common Pleas courtroom. He had faced a maximum of 32 years behind bars.
Creighton, of Union Avenue, was arrested in February 2007 for allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover deputy posing as a teen online.
That was when detectives said he confessed to molesting as many as 30 local boys since the early ’80s.
Detectives said that investigation led to the discovery of child pornography in his home, some of which was homemade.
He was charged with the rape and gross sexual imposition of three neighborhood juvenile victims in January 2008.
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