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Prison Sentence for Rape of a Child in Carbon County

JIM THORPE — A man who admitted to the rape of a 12-year-old boy was sentenced Tuesday to a long prison term. A judge sentenced Kevin Gowrie to 16 to 35 y...
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JIM THORPE — A man who admitted to the rape of a 12-year-old boy was sentenced Tuesday to a long prison term.

A judge sentenced Kevin Gowrie to 16 to 35 years in prison.

Gowrie pleaded guilty to rape of a child and aggravated assault charges.

Authorities said Gowrie assaulted a boy over a 6-month period in 2016.

Police in Jim Thorpe said this was one of the worst cases of sexual assault of a child they had investigated.

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