Credit: Nemaha Co Sheriff's Office 

(KMZA)-- Wetmore man convicted of child sex crimes has been sentenced to more than sixteen and a half years in prison.

Court documents show 52-year-old Robert Motto Junior was sentenced last Thursday in Nemaha County District Court on one count of rape and one count of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child.

After serving his prison sentence, Motto will be subject to lifetime post-release supervision.

He pleaded no contest to the charges in December as part of a plea agreement.  Prosecutors had originally charged Motto with seven counts in the case.

He was arrested in July of 2024 following an investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office into alleged crimes involving three children under the age of fourteen, dating back to April of 2009.