SUMMIT COUNTY — Former Park City attorney Joseph “Joe” Wrona was sentenced Friday to up to 15 years in prison after a judge found he willfully violated probation by contacting his adult daughter, whom he was previously convicted of sexually abusing.
After an internet outage at the courthouse delayed the trial one week, Wrona appeared shackled in Summit County’s 3rd District Court on Dec. 19. The trial resulted in Judge Richard Mrazik ruling to reimpose the original one-to-15-year prison sentence tied to Wrona’s 2023 felony convictions for sexual abuse and incest involving his biological daughter.
Under a plea agreement reached in January 2024, Wrona served jail time, agreed to lifetime sex offender registration, and accepted a permanent no-contact order prohibiting any communication with his daughter. After Wrona was released early for good behavior, prosecutors said he violated those terms in September 2025 by sending her a letter while traveling in Florida…