Wyoming Sex Offender Pleads Not Guilty to Child Sex Abuse Charges

A registered sex offender pleaded not guilty in Laramie County District Court Thursday to six charges involving child molestation.

Paul D. Hatcher, 58, is accused of sexually abusing one victim in 2014 and anotherbetween June and July of 2015, when the boys were around 6 years old.

The incidents are alleged to have occurred at Hatcher's trailer home in Laramie County.

Hatcher has been charged with three first-degree and three second-degree counts of sexual abuse of a minor. If convicted, he could face 75 to 210 years in prison.

Hatcher remains in the Laramie County jail on a $15,000 cash bond awaiting trial.

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