Man sentenced to one year

Published 9:00 am Sunday, July 6, 2014

A Freeborn County District Court judge on Thursday sentenced a 42-year-old man to one year and one day in prison for violating his registration requirements as a predatory offender.

Kikham Sayaphet

Kikham Sayaphet

Kikham Sayaphet of Albert Lea will serve his sentence at the state prison in St. Cloud. He will receive credit for three days already spent in jail.

The sentence came after Sayaphet in March pleaded guilty to the violation. He had been required to register information with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension after being convicted the summer of 2012 in Freeborn County of soliciting a 12-year-old child to engage in sexual conduct.

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Some of the information he had to register includes where he lives, where he works, what he drives and if he owns property, among other characteristics.

According to court records, Sayaphet changed his address to be the Carver County Jail from September 2012 through January 23, 2013.

On Jan. 24, 2013, he was released from federal custody after being held by immigration officials. At that time he reported an address to immigration officials at 801 E. 18 1/2 St. in Albert Lea. He did not report a change of address to local officials.

A detective with the Albert Lea Police Department in July 2013 went to the residence listed by immigration personnel. A person living with Sayaphet told the detective that the man had been living there for about two months. Sayaphet reportedly thought he was only required to let immigration officials know where he was living.