A Belleville resident in his 70s has been sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation.
James Eagles pled guilty to sexual exploitation in front of Justice Robert Scott on April 18 and was sentenced to two years in a federal prison and three years probation.
He was also required to submit a DNA sample to the databank, was placed on the sexual offender registry and was banned from public spaces with children and youths for 10 years.
Eagles was originally charged in August 2015 following an eight-month-long investigation by Belleville Police. At the time he was charged with three counts of sexual assault and one count each of uttering threats and forcible confinement.
A publication ban on the case was lifted by the victim, a former city resident, in hopes that her actions would help someone else come forward if they found themselves a victim of the same sort of crime.
