PANAMA CITY — Joseph Gable Wood Sr. was convicted Wednesday of lewd or lascivious battery on a 13-year-old girl, according to the State Attorney’s Office.
Assistant State Attorney Megan Ford told jurors in her opening statement Wednesday that Wood's wife found him engaged in a sex act with a 13-year-old girl on Nov. 2, 2013. The girl told authorities that Wood, 66, of Fountain, had been molesting her for several years.
Wood was found guilty as charged of lewd or lascivious battery and lewd or lascivious conduct. He faces up to 30 years in prison when Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet sentenceshim Monday.