Sex offender convicted of molesting 14-year-old boy in Hall County
A convicted sex offender in Illinois was convicted Thursday of molesting a 14-year-old in Hall County, authorities said.
Bryan Gregory Fossier, 37, of Cornelia, was sentenced to 35 years in prison without the possibility of parole followed by life on probation, Hall County District Attorney Lee Darragh told AJC.com. He was found guilty on four counts of aggravated child molestation and one count of child molestation.
Fossier was arrested in January by the Hall County Sheriff’s Office.
The molestation involved a teenage victim he knew, the sheriff’s office said. No other information about the conviction was released.
He was initially arrested on an outstanding probation warrant. His original charges included failure to register as a sex offender in Georgia and aggravated assault.
Fossier was convicted of sexually assaulting a victim who was at least 18 years old, according to the Illinois State Police’s sex offender registry. He was 21 when he was arrested.
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The alleged aggravated assault was domestic-related and took place in 2014, the sheriff’s office said. Fossier is accused of strangling a woman he lived with at the time.
In November 2013, Fossier and a woman were both arrested on second-degree child cruelty charges for leaving a 5-year-old boy alone in a cold car while trying to buy drugs in Gwinnett County, AJC.com previously reported. He was 31 years old when he was arrested.
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He and Boni Lee Hutchison were found guilty in 2014 of the crime and were sentenced to three years of probation, according to Gwinnett court records.
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