Sunday's Internet Edition, September 07, 2008.

Darrell E. Williams, 47, of Front Street was sentenced Monday by Roane Circuit Judge Tom Evans.

Evans ordered Williams to serve 5-to-15 years on a charge of incest and another 5-to-15 years for sexual abuse by a parent or custodian. He was given two sentences of 1-to-5 years on charges of third-degree sexual assault.

Evans said the sentences would be served consecutively, meaning Williams will serve a minimum of 12 years and a maximum of 40 years.

The prison term will be followed by 50 years of supervised release during which time he can be monitored by a GPS satellite tracking system, be subject to lie detector tests and have to report to a supervising officer. He must also register as a sex offender for life.

Williams pled guilty to the four charges after he was arrested last September on more than 400 counts of sex abuse and incest. The charges were filed as State Police were investigating complaints Williams had abused his 4-year-old granddaughter. Williams was scheduled to have a lie detector test but backed out after telling officers he was concerned the test would show he had abused his daughter when she was a teenager.

Police contacted the daughter, who now lives in the Midwest, and she told them her father had forced her to engage in sex with him on a regular basis from 1993 until 1995, beginning when she was 13 and until she was placed in a foster home at the age of 15.

Williams has been in jail since his arrest.