Cedar Rapids man sentenced for abusing child over five-year period

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Iowa’s News Now) — A Cedar Rapids man has been sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a girl over several years.

Court records show 23-year-old Elijah Allen Covington abused the child from 2016 to 2021.

The abuse started when she was 6-years-old and Covington was 14-years-old and continued until she was 12 and he was 19…

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