Man gets 7 years in prison for soliciting teen prostitute

URBANA – A Champaign man who admitted paying a pimp to have sex with a teenage girl was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison.

Leslie Kent Wilson, 57, whose last known address was in the 1700 block of Sangamon Avenue, pleaded guilty in September to soliciting a juvenile prostitute and aggravated criminal sexual abuse for acts that occurred in July 2005 with a then 15-year-old girl.

Also on this date

• 'Dealing room' proposed for M2
• Parsons resigns from Urban League
• Businesses voice opposition to MTD annexation plans
• Groups conducting toy drive
• Man convicted of molesting child to be sentenced next month
• Union tells UI it intends to strike
• Students put on 1940s-style USO performance for special guests
• Prussing has candidate in mind for deputy mayor
• Provena hospitals in the black again
• Obituaries

» More