A former Valencia man was sentenced Thursday, Dec. 4, in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve up to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping and threatening a teenage girl in 2023.

Eric S. Ellis II, 27, who has been held in the Butler County Prison in lieu of bail since his June 2023 arrest, but is a resident of Troy. Mo., according to court records, was sentenced to serve 66 months to 144 months in state prison after pleading guilty to three of the 13 charges Middlesex Township police filed against him for sexually assaulting two girls, who were 12 and 13 years old at the time.

Judge Joseph Kubit sentenced Ellis to concurrently serve 72 months to 144 months for a felony charge of rape of a child, 66 months to 132 months for a felony charge of involuntary deviate sexual in

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