Prison sentence for sex crime

A plea of guilt this week resolved a sex crime in the court of Oconee General Sessions at Walhalla. Court records show that Judge Alison Renee Lee accepted the plea of Christopher Trent Wilder to the charge of criminal sexual conduct first degree. The victim of the crime June 21 was identified as a woman at her Utica community home and authorities said that, at the time, Wilder was armed with a knife or a hammer-like object. Wilder, who is 28 years old, was ordered to prison for 10 years.