Today, October 19, 2012, in Muscatine County District Court:
SHANE ORA MATHIAS, DOB: 1/5/1976, of New Boston, IL, formerly of Muscatine, was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree. The Court imposed concurrent sentences of incarceration for a total term of not to exceed ten years. In addition, the Court placed the defendant on supervised release as if on parole for the remainder of his life following the completion of his prison sentence.
The case had been investigated by the Muscatine Police Deparment. Investigation showed that the defendant had performed a sex act against a person under the age of 16.
The defendant was immediately taken into custody and held in the Muscatine County Jail pending transport to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center at Oakdale to commence serving his sentence.