URBANA, Ill. (AP) – A central Illinois man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting to repeatedly raping a child a decade ago. In sentencing Gregory Reed of Mahomet on Thursday, Champaign County Judge Tom Difanis called him a “sexually dangerous” man who should never be around children again. The News-Gazette in Champaign reports the 43-year-old Reed pleaded guilty last month to predatory criminal sexual assault of a child between January 2006 and July 2011. Champaign County sheriff’s investigators became aware of the allegations in 2018 when the victim, now an adult, came forward. At the time, Reed was serving a 10-year prison sentence for aggravated child pornography for taking photographs of the girl and her friend as they changed clothing after swimming.
