Union Township resident Jaysen Bell was sentenced to five years in prison for molesting two of his foster sons.
The five-year sentence, which was handed down by Clermont County Common Pleas Court judge Robert Ringland April 8, was the maximum sentence allowed under state law.
In February, a jury convicted Bell, 32, of sexual battery and three charges of sexual imposition. He was acquitted of rape, gross sexual imposition, and two charges of sexual battery with the foster boys, aged 16 and 17.
One of the victims claimed that he was 12 years old when the abuse started in 2003; the second victim claims to have been abused during his stay with Bell and his wife from 2005 through 2006.