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January 10, 2008 Man sentenced to life for child molestation State Attorney Steve Meadows announces the conviction and sentence, in Bay County Circuit Court, of John Willis Kimbro, on a charge of Sexual Battery on a Person less than 12 years of age. After a two-day trial, the two males, four females jury deliberated about two hours before finding Kimbro, BM, DOB:8-24-1984, of Bay Avenue in Panama City, guilty of the August, 2006, crime against a then nine year old girl. The child did testify in the trial. Immediately after the verdict and the release of the jury, Circuit Court Judge Don T. Sirmons sentenced Kimbro to the mandatory term of life without possibility of parole. |