James Dale Luker, 18, of 15435 S. County Road 205, was handed the sentence Friday before Associate District Judge Clark Huey. A Jackson County jury on April 10 found Luker guilty of felony lewd molestation and recommended the eight-year prison term.
According to District Attorney John Wampler, his office and sheriff's deputies are looking into the alleged assault on Luker.
Luker's mother, Karen Griffin, said Friday that her son called her from the jail at around 2:30 a.m. May 16, saying he'd been jumped by some inmates who used sox filled with bars of soap to beat him, then sodomized him with a toothbrush.
Luker was taken into custody by Blair Police Chief Joe Poulin on Nov. 29, 2006, on a felony warrant and was booked into the Jackson County Jail under a $25,000 bond.
According to the probable cause affidavit for arrest warrant filed in District Court, Altus Police Detective Daniel Meyer learned from the woman who had been baby-sitting the child and her infant siblings at an apartment in the 2300 block of North Park Lane that Luker had been a guest at the residence for a few days.
She told Meyer that when she entered the child's room she saw Luker on the bed with the girl and that he had his right hand inserted in the front of the girl's pajama bottoms. Luker's left hand, the woman said, was holding the waistband of the pajama bottoms away from the girl's waist.
Luker, the woman said, told her not to tell anyone, then ran from the residence.
The girl was taken to Jackson County Memorial Hospital where Dr. Roy Goddard, the attending physician, reported that he did not observe any marks or injuries to the girl's vaginal area. JCMH reported the incident at 1:29 a.m. Thanksgiving Day.
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