Bay City man gets 15 to 40 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting 12-year-old

Months spent sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl has landed a Bay City man in prison for up to the next four decades. Bay County Circuit Judge Harry P. Gill on Monday sentenced James D. Brown, 47, to 15 to 40 years in prison, with credit for 250 days served. Brown in October pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim younger than 13. In exchange, prosecutors dismissed four more counts of the same charge, as well as three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person younger than 13. Brown began assaulting his victim — his girlfriend’s daughter — in 2010, Bay County Prosecutor Kurt C. Asbury previously said. The girl’s mother discovered the abuse when she walked in on the pair in bed together at the Bay Motel, 910 S. Euclid Ave. in Monitor Township, on March 16, 2011, Asbury said.

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