A Vian man was convicted in Sequoyah County District Court, Sallisaw Aug. 10 of the first-degree rape of a 10-year-old girl.
Hall David Hodges, 52, of Vian, will have to follow the supervisions and conditions for sex offenders. He has to register for life as an aggravated level three-sex offender on the Oklahoma Sex and Violent Crime Offender registry. Hodges was also sentenced to a five-year suspended sentence and a $596 fine.
Hodges was accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in August 2006. The girl told authorities that Hodges was a friend of the family who was visiting her family.
She told authorities that she was in the living room on the couch in her nightgown watching TV when Hodges came over to her and lifted up her nightgown and started touching her inappropriately.
Undersheriff Roger Fuller, who was a Sequoyah County deputy at the time, said Hodges denied the allegations.