Cheryl Nicholson, also known as Charles Nicholson, was sentenced Friday in Wyandotte County District Court to a controlling term of 65 years in prison. Judge Wesley K. Griffin imposed the sentence.
Nicholson pleaded guilty on Feb. 14, 2014, to two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy in connection with the sexual abuse of two children, ages 6 and 10, which occurred over a period of months in 2012 and January. Aggravated criminal sodomy is a severity level I person felony.
Assistant District Attorney Logan McRae prosecuted the case for the state of Kansas.