Aug. 24, 2016
For Immediate Release
The Office of State Attorney Glenn Hess announced that the First District Court of Appeals upheld the life sentence of a Fountain man convicted of molesting a child for more than three years.
Last October, a jury convicted Raymond Scott Beck as charged of three counts of sexual battery on a child younger than 12 and two counts of sexual battery of a child 12 years old or older and two counts of soliciting a child to engage in an act which would constitute sexual battery. On Nov. 5, Circuit Judge Hentz McClellan sentenced Beck to life in prison.
Beck had appealed Judge McClellan’s decision to allow other victims to testify about Beck’s abuse upon them. However, on Monday, Chief Judge L.Clayton Roberts, Judge T. Kent Wetherell II and Judge Ross L. Bilbrey affirmed Beck’s conviction and sentence without comment.