KANSAS CITY —A judge sentenced a Kansas City-area man to 24 years in prison after he was convicted by a jury of sexual assaults involving a child, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
Jeremy S. Callihan, 36, Raytown, was sentenced to 20 years for a conviction of Statutory Sodomy in the 1st Degree and four years for a conviction of Sexual Misconduct with a Child under 15. The judge set those sentences to run consecutively for a total of 24 years.
A Jackson County jury convicted Callihan in March, following a trial. The jury recommended a sentence of 24 years.
According to court records, in October 2019 Raytown Police were alerted to allegations of the Callihan having sexual contact with a child in a Raytown residence. Detectives investigated and observed a forensic interview of the victim at the Child Protection Center.