FORT PIERCE — A 63-year-old Port St. Lucie man was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to 30 years in prison for sexual encounters he admitted having with an 11-year-old girl in 2007.

Stephen J. King was sentenced to 30 years for attempted lewd or lascivious molestation of a child under 12 by a perpetrator over 18 and 15 years behind bars for lewd or lascivious exhibition, but Circuit Judge Robert Belanger allowed the terms to run concurrently.

Under Florida law, King has to serve at least 85 percent of his sentence, meaning he can’t petition for parole for 25½ years.

King had pleaded no contest to the molestation and exhibition charges in October; and prosecutors, after consulting with the girl’s family, agreed to drop two additional charges of sexual battery on a child.

State prosecutors said in February 2007 King committed inappropriate sexual acts five or six times with the girl. After his arrest, King admitted watching a pornographic DVD with the girl, court papers said.
By Tyler Treadway

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