JC man guilty in sexual assault case

A Cole County jury found a Jefferson City man guilty on charges in connection with a sexual assault case.

Robert Taylor, 33, was found guilty of enticement of a child, second-degree sodomy and second-degree rape.

Sentencing is scheduled for July.

Taylor was indicted by the Cole County Grand Jury for enticement of a child in September 2015. The charging document shows that in June 2015, Taylor "persuaded and solicited and coaxed and enticed the victim who was under the age of 15 by sending text messages requesting sexual contact."

The sodomy and rape charges occurred in July 2014.