FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 5, 2007

Child molester sentenced to seven years prison.

State Attorney Steve Meadows announces the sentencing, in Bay County Circuit Court, of William Blackmon, to seven years prison for Lewd or Lascivious Molestation of a Child.

Blackmon, 35, of Wewahitchka, was convicted of the charge by a Bay County jury in May. He was convicted of having a child perform oral sex on him.

Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet also ordered the prison sentence to be followed by eight years community supervision and declared him to be a sex offender.