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Atchison man sentenced on child sex charge

By Brian Hagen

06/27/2025

Jeffrey Bowen/Credit: Atchison Co Sheriff's Office

(KAIR)--An Atchison man, convicted of aggravated criminal sodomy in a sex-crimes case involving a 9-year-old victim, will spend more than a decade in prison.

Atchison County Attorney Sherri Becker, in a release, says Jeffrey Bowen, last week in Atchison County District Court, was handed his more than 13-year sentence after pleading no contest to the charge in May.

According to the release, the Atchison Police investigation, leading to the arrest of the now 41-year-old Bowen in early September of last year, was launched in late August 2024 "after a nine-year-old girl reported that [Bowen] had touched her inappropriately."

According to Becker, it was during last week's sentencing that she "argued on behalf of the victim and the victim- family in asking that the defendant be sentenced to the maximum sentence" under Kansas law which is 165 months, or 13-years-nine months in prison.

Bowen's attorney, meanwhile, argued for the standard sentence of 155 months, or 12-years-11-months.

Instead, Becker says, "the District Court ultimately ordered that [Bowen] serve 160 months," or 13-years-4-months of incarceration, 5-months short of Becker's sentencing request.

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