Post Falls man sentenced for child sex crimes

A 27-year-old Post Falls man could serve 30 years in prison for molesting two minor girls.

Tyler J. Kelley was sentenced in First District Court to four years fixed and 26 years indeterminate for one count of lewd conduct with a minor and one count of sexual battery of a minor.

According to a press release from the Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office, Kelley met the girls separately on an internet site. Although the conviction was Kelley’s first, investigators said that he had contact with other minor girls and that he was “highly manipulative and intentionally preyed on vulnerable minor girls.”

An evaluation showed Kelley was at a moderate risk to reoffend.