WARREN, Ohio -  A Liberty Township man convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl will be transferred from the Trumbull County Jail to a state prison to begin serving a sentence of ten years to life.

Theodore Fecko III was sentenced this week after a jury earlier found him guilty of rape following an investigation into the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl last summer.

The incident happened last July when the 12-year-old was at a friend's home.

After the incident. the victim immediately called her parents and her parents contacted the police.

Fecko, who has been sentenced to the Lorain Correctional Institution, has also been ordered to register as a sex offender.