(Michigan City, IN) - An elderly Michigan City man has received a virtual life sentence for child molesting.

John Hupertz was given a 96 year sentence late last week in La Porte Superior Court 1.

The 84 year old Hupertz was found guilty by a jury in May of molesting his granddaughter over a several year period beginning in 2005.

Hupertz was also found guilty of possessing more than 7,000 sexual images of children on his computers.