IC man convicted on charges he sexually abused his stepdaughter
Lang
6/28/19
An Iowa City man accused of sexually abusing his stepdaughter has been convicted on all charges.
56-year-old Jeffry Waite of Oakcrest Hill Road was found guilty on five counts of 3rd Degree Sexual Abuse and one count of Lascivious Acts with a Minor on Friday.
Waite was arrested in September on accusations that he had committed multiple sex acts against the teen’s will over a multiple year period beginning in 2013.
Police say he coaxed the girl into exposing herself to him after years of his urging her to do so.
In a May 2015 incident, Waite is accused of touching the girls’ genitals while she was driving them to an appointment. That, police say, was the start of a physical relationship between them, though they say the teen told Waite to stop during the sex acts.
Police say the abuse continued through 2017.
Waite was booked into the Johnson County Jail just after 5:15 Friday afternoon as he awaits sentencing. He faces a maximum sentence of 51 years in prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.