A Cherokee County man, indicted back in December of 2018 on the charges of Sexual Abuse of a Child under the age of 12 and Sodomy 1st Degree, will be heading to prison, following a plea agreement to lesser included charges of two counts of the Attempted Sexual Abuse of a Child under the age 12.

On Monday, in the courtroom of Judge Andrew Hairston, 53 year old Timothy Lyn Culver of Cedar Bluff was sentenced to serve a “split-sentence” of five years incarceration in the state penitentiary with 18 months to serve on each count for a total of 36 months – that followed by five years probation on each count, for a total of ten years, with those sentences running consecutively.

Culver was additionally ordered to pay court costs.

He was booked in at the Cherokee County Detention Center around 11:30 Monday morning to await transport to prison.