A Phelps man is headed to prison after being convicted by a jury in Ontario County.
Tristin Elliot, 27, will be sentenced to 10-25 years at a later date, according to prosecutors, who accused him of assaulting a child under 13 for several years.
The assaults lasted approximately three years between 2014 and 2017, according to prosecutors.
“For years this defendant compelled the silence of his young victim by threatening to leave her in the woods with the monsters. After enduring years of abuse, her fear of the monsters in the woods was finally less than her fear of the monster abusing her, and she told the terrifying story of her sexual abuse” said Ontario County District Attorney James Ritts. “Tristin Elliott is the precise reason our state has the crime of predatory sexual assault against a child. He is absolutely a predator.”
Sentencing is slated for January 8, 2025.
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