(AP) – Federal prosecutors say a former Fort Leonard Wood man
pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 6-year-old child at the fort.
The man, 67-year-old Paul Kickery, of Brattleboro, Vermont, pleaded guilty
Thursday to aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
Court documents say the child’s father called Brattleboro police to report
Kickery had sexually assaulted his daughter between July 2013 and July 2014.
Kickery and the child lived in the same residence at the base at Fort Leonard
Wood during that year.
The child victim told a family member about the abuse a year later.
Kickery faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years.
A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after a presentence investigation.
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