LAS VEGAS—A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to federal prison for sexually abusing a young girl.
Stephen Thomas Parshall, 38, was ordered to serve 33 years in a federal prison Monday, court records show. U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey in Las Vegas also sentenced Parshall to lifetime supervision upon his release.
The years-long sexual abuse, which prosecutors say began when the victim was younger than 10, was uncovered in 2020 while police and federal agents were investigating Parshall and two other men in connection with an alleged terrorism plot targeting protests in Las Vegas.
Parshall pleaded guilty in October 2022—one day before a federal jury trial in the abuse case was set to begin—to two counts of sexually exploiting a child, one count of coercion and enticement, and one count of receiving and distributing child pornography….