LOGAN — A 49-year-old New Mexico man has been sentenced to prison for molesting a Logan girl several years ago. Kenneth Ray Mayfield, who was arrested in June , was given the maximum sentence of 15-years-to-life after a judge called him a “grave public safety to children.”

Mayfield was sentenced Monday in Logan’s 1 st District Court. He previously accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony.

According to prosecutors, Logan City Police were contacted in January about a child sex abuse report that occurred between three and four years ago. A 14-year-old girl explained how she had been inappropriately touched by Mayfield, an uncle, while he was visiting her family’s home.

The victim described several incidents of being molested by

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