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🌱 Fouke man receives 80-year sentence in child sex abuse case.

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  • Fouke man receives 80-year sentence in child sex abuse case.

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• Miller County Man Sentenced To 80 Years For Child Sex Abuse (txktoday.com) — A Fouke man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after a Miller County jury convicted him of rape and sexual assault involving a child, with abuse beginning when the victim was about six. The 40-year-old was taken into custody after the verdict and will be transferred from Miller County to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
   

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