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DENVER—A federal appeals court has upheld a lengthy prison sentence for a man convicted of sexually abusing a child on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
A federal jury in Wyoming found Travis J. McGill guilty of six counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12 and one count of possession of child pornography.
U.S. District Judge William F. Downes of Casper in 2008 sentenced McGill to serve 46 and one-half years in prison.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld McGill’s prison sentence on Monday. The panel noted that Downes could have sentenced McGill, now 28, to serve life in prison and ruled that any challenge to his sentence would be frivolous.
