Hunter/Lang
7/1/19
An Iowa City man convicted of sexually abusing his stepdaughter will be sentenced in August.
56-year old Jeffry Waite of Oakcrest Hill Road was found guilty on all six counts Friday; five of 3rd Degree Sexual Abuse and one of Lascivious Acts with A Minor.
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 Friday afternoon post trial.
As the sexual abuse charges are not bailable, he will be held without bond pending sentencing, which will take place at 10am on August 21st.
Waite faces a maximum sentence of 51 years in prison.