Three convicted sex offenders were sentenced in four criminal cases last week in Anchorage and the Aleutian community of Sand Point.
On Jan. 16, District Court Judge Daniel Schally sentenced 26-year-old James Griffith in Sand Point to eight years in prison for sexually abusing an autistic 7-year-old, according to the Alaska Department of Law.
Griffith received an additional five years behind bars in a separate case for trying to sexually abuse another child while out on conditions of release set in the first case.
Sand Point is a community of about 950 residents in the eastern Aleutian Islands off the Alaska Peninsula, 570 miles from Anchorage.
That same day, two Anchorage residents received jail time for child pornography charges.
Jesse Occhino, 33, was sentenced to three years in prison and five years of probation for child porn possession, according to the Department of Law. He will be required to register as a sex offender for 15 years when released.
Finally, Gregory Edwards, 32, was sentenced to two years and three months for possessing "hundreds of videos depicting child sexual abuse and sexual assault," according to the Department of Law. Edwards' sentence also includes required sex offender registration for 15 years.