(La Porte, IN) - A La Porte man could spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of child molestation. A La Porte Circuit Court jury yesterday convicted 75-year old Gerald Yaw on all five counts. 

According to court documents, a girl started being molested by Yaw when she was eight or nine years old at his home on Farrand Ave. The activity didn’t stop until about three or four years later. In addition, he molested another girl starting when she was about the same age. That activity began in the late 1980s and lasted for several years.

Yaw was found guilty on three Level 1 felony counts of Child Molesting and two Level 4 felony counts. The three most serious counts could bring him as much as 40-years apiece.