The Office of the 100th Judicial District Attorney’s reports that a Childress man was sentenced to life in prison for continuous sexual abuse of a young child. According to a news release from ...

Durrell Ray Childress was sentenced to life in prison for killing an off-duty Little Rock police officer in 1993, when Childress was 17 years old. In 2018, that sentence was reduced to 20 years in ...

On Oct. 15, 2021, Childress was arrested on a charge of arson, a Class 2 felony under Illinois law that carries a prison sentence of three to seven years. On Dec. 2, 2021, Childress pleaded guilty ...

So, he was sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison. The sentencing for Childress was delayed until next week due to illness.